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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
kelvin /ˈkelvɪn/ (abbrev.: K)

▶noun the SI base unit of thermodynamic temperature, equal in magnitude to the degree Celsius.

– origin C19: named after the British physicist William T. Kelvin.

'kelvin' also found in these Oxford entries:

Boltzmann's constant - gas constant - K - Kelvin scale - SI

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