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Definition of Rankine
1. Noun. A unit of temperature on the Rankine scale.
Definition of Rankine
1. Proper noun. a Scottish and Northern Irish surname, variant of Rankin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rankine
Literary usage of Rankine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"Rankine, indeed, probably biased by the results of experiments, ... Beth Rankine
and Clausius have pointed out the importance of a certain function, ..."
2. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"This is called the Rankine cycle ratio or potential efficiency* It is the accepted
standard for comparing the performance of steam engines and steam ..."
3. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1840)
"INCLOSING SOME POEMS, O ROUGH, rude, ready-witted Rankine, The wale o' cocks for
fun and drinkin! There's mony godly folks are thinkin, Your dreams* and ..."
4. Principles of Thermodynamics by George Alfred Goodenough (1920)
"Required the efficiencies of the Rankine and Carnot cycles under these conditions.
From the steam table i', = 93.4, ii = 1194.7 - 0.02 X 864.9 = 1177.4, ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"Rankine in 1849, and Clausius in 1850, showed the nature of the further ...
Rankine was the author of: 1. 'On the Means of improving the Water Supply of ..."
6. Thermodynamics for Engineers by James Alfred Ewing (1920)
"Each pound of steam does a larger amount of work in the Rankine cycle than it
does in the Carnot cycle. This will be apparent when the areas are compared ..."
7. Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century by Alexander Macfarlane (1919)
"Rankine spent his first years in Ayrshire among the Carrick Hills, which he
afterwards celebrated in verse, for Rankine, like Maxwell, was an amateur poet: ..."
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