Example sentences for: kelvin

How can you use “kelvin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To liven things up a bit, the engine room watch has calculated and reported the seawater temperatures in units other than Fahrenheit: Kelvin, Rankin, Celsius--the bridge didn't think it was too funny.

  • Despite the unanimous support of the institute's tiny School of Social Science and a search committee's favorable vote, the institute's director ruled against the appointment of Princeton University Professor M. Norton Wise, co-author of a prize-winning book on 19 th century thermodynamics expert Lord Kelvin.

  • Kelvin Lancaster died last month.

  • But it was a golden age--a time of innovation and intellectual excitement, when all of economics seemed up for reinvention--and Kelvin Lancaster was one of those who made it so.

  • Lord Kelvin is credited with coining mho by reversing the spelling of ohm .


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