Definitions for Kelvin

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IPA: /ˈkɛl vɪn/

Kelvin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in Kelvin (eiklnv).

Definitions for Kelvin

noun

1. William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
2. (lowercase) the basic unit of temperature in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be approximately 1/273 of the triple point of water. Abbreviation: K.

adjective

1. Thermodynamics. noting or pertaining to an absolute scale of temperature (Kelvin scale) in which the degree intervals are equal to those of the Celsius scale and in which absolute zero is 0 degrees Kelvin and the triple point of water has the value of approximately 273 degrees Kelvin. Compare absolute temperature scale, Celsius (def 3).
2. Also, Kelwin [kel-win] /ˈkɛl wɪn/ (Show IPA). a male given name.

Examples for Kelvin

Kelvin remembered wrapping mackerel in them and eating them wild with seasoning.

Smith, will you and Mr. Kelvin get out the emergency rockets?

Leslie had learned that the Kelvin family amused itself in this fashion every night when the fishing was not particularly good.

The Clyde, the Kelvin and the Leven are the only rivers of importance.

Was the Kelvin a fiord to Kilsyth, or nearly so, as he implies?

The late Lord Kelvin is an example of an unimpaired intellect.

After all it's only another example of Kelvin's theory of vortices.

If the falsehood were not too glaring, they would say the same of Faraday and Helmholtz and Kelvin.

The editor who took the Sun to the heights of its formula was Kelvin McKenzie, who ran it from 1981 to 1994.

I asked Kelvin what else he remembered about this place and the rectangles.