NOUN | quantity | temperature unit | a unit of measurement for temperature |
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Meaning | A unit of measurement for temperature. | |
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Narrower | Rankine | A unit of temperature on the Rankine scale |
degree | A unit of temperature on a specified scale | |
degree day | A unit used in estimating fuel requirements for heating a building | |
kelvin, K | The basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | |
millidegree | A unit of temperature equal to one-thousandth of a degree | |
Broader | unit of measurement, unit | Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange |
Spanish | unidad de temperatura | |
Catalan | unitat de temperatura |
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