kelvin

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Definition

noun the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
noun British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea telegraphy (1824-1907)

Named after Irish-born Scottish physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.

After all it's only another example of Kelvin's theory of vortices. — A Honeymoon in Space, George Chetwynd Griffith
The scientists of our time do not seem, indeed, to have carried abstraction so far, except perhaps Lord Kelvin. — Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Henri Bergson

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