absolute temperature
Noun
Meaning
temperature measured on the absolute scale
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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.
Absolute thermometers are calibrated numerically by the thermodynamic absolute temperature scale.
A more rigorous approach requires distinguishing between position and displacement (or moment in time versus duration, or absolute temperature versus temperature change).
As a result, simple dimensional analysis can lead to errors if it is ambiguous whether 1 K means the absolute temperature equal to −273.15 °C, or the temperature difference equal to 1 °C.
Each system, by definition, must have its own absolute temperature applicable within all areas in each respective system in order to calculate the entropy transfer.