kelvin

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛlvɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛlvɪn/, /ˈkɛlvən/, [ˈkʰɛɫvɨn]

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• Rhymes: -ɛlvɪn, -ɛlvən

kelvin (plural kelvins)

1. 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".
2. A unit interval on the Kelvin scale.

   The interval between the freezing and boiling points of water is 100 kelvins.

3. (usually as postpositioned adjective) A unit for a specific temperature on the Kelvin scale.

   Ice melts above 273.15 kelvins.

   Water boils above 373.15 kelvins.

• As with all SI units, the ordinary English plural kelvins is the recommended one; however in literature it is equally common to treat it as an invariant plural, albeit nonstandard.
• The term degree Kelvin is obsolete and nowadays proscribed.

• (temperature unit interval): degree Celsius, degree absolute (obsolete), degree Kelvin (obsolete), degree kelvin (obsolete, nonstandard)
• (specific temperature): degree absolute (obsolete), degree Kelvin (obsolete), degree kelvin (obsolete, nonstandard)

• “kelvin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɛlvɪn]

kelvin m inan

1. kelvin (unit of temperature)

• “kelvin”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “kelvin”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

From English Kelvin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkelʋin/, [ˈk̟e̞lʋin]
• Rhymes: -elʋin
• Syllabification^(key): kel‧vin
• Hyphenation^(key): kel‧vin

kelvin

1. kelvin (unit of temperature)

• “kelvin”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• kilven

• IPA^(key): /kɛl.vɛ̃/

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kelvin m (plural kelvins)

1. a kelvin (unit of temperature)

• “kelvin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɛlvin]
• Hyphenation: kel‧vin
• Rhymes: -in

kelvin (plural kelvinek)

1. kelvin (base unit of thermodynamic temperature)

kelvin m (plural kelvins)

1. kelvin (SI temperature unit)

Borrowed from English kelvin or French kelvin.

kelvin m (uncountable)

1. a kelvin (unit of temperature)

• IPA^(key): /kělʋiːn/
• Hyphenation: kel‧vin

kèlvīn m inan (Cyrillic spelling кѐлвӣн)

1. kelvin

• IPA^(key): /ˈkelbin/ [ˈkel.β̞ĩn]
• Rhymes: -elbin
• Syllabification: kel‧vin

kelvin m (plural kelvins)

1. kelvin (SI temperature unit)

• “kelvin”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024