Usually means: Temperature unit based on absolute.
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  1. Kelvin, kelvin: Merriam-Webster
  2. Kelvin, kelvin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kelvin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  5. Kelvin, kelvin: Vocabulary.com
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  7. kelvin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Kelvin, kelvin: Wiktionary
  9. Kelvin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Kelvin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. Kelvin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Kelvin (disambiguation), Kelvin (given name), Kelvin (unit), Kelvin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. kelvin: FreeDictionary.org
  16. kelvin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Kelvin, Kelvin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Kelvin: Rhymezone
  19. kelvin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. kelvin: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
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  1. Kelvin: Legal dictionary
  2. Kelvin: Financial dictionary
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Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Kelvin: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
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  3. Kelvin (unit), kelvin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Kelvin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Kelvin (unit), kelvin: Medical dictionary

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Science (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Kelvin: Solar Radiation Resource Terms
  2. Kelvin: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Kelvin: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
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  5. kelvin: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. Kelvin (K): Nine Planets Glossary
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  8. Kelvin: UNCChem Glossary
  9. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  10. KELVIN: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kelvin: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Kelvin: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; ¹⁄_(273.16) of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water. The unit symbol is "K".
noun:  A unit interval on the Kelvin scale.
noun:  (usually as postpositioned adjective) A unit for a specific temperature on the Kelvin scale.
noun:  A river which flows through East Dunbartonshire council area and Glasgow council area, Scotland, to the River Clyde.
noun:  A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname, of rather rare usage.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of kelvin [In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; ¹⁄_(273.16) of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water. The unit symbol is "K".]

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