Associations to the word «Rankine»

Wiktionary

RANKINE, proper noun. A Scottish and Northern Irish surname, variant of Rankin.
RANKINE CYCLE, noun. (physics) a thermodynamic cycle used as an ideal standard for the comparative performance of heat engines

Dictionary definition

RANKINE, noun. A unit of temperature on the Rankine scale.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne