Definition of "rankine" []

• A unit of temperature on the Rankine scale (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Tagged: rankine temperature farenheit diving scuba"
• "As to using an organic rankine cycle then this would seem to be a good idea."
• "This is rather incendiary, but this accident at a biomass plant in Sittard, NL, became much more spectacular because of the use of an organic rankine cycle."