What does Rankine mean?

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Proper noun
  1. a Scottish and Northern Irish surname, variant of Rankin.
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The Fahrenheit and Celsius scales are based on two fixed points, the Kelvin and Rankine scales are based on one.
Two South Australian writers who have made their mark in twentieth-century oenography are Geoffrey Bishop and Bryce Rankine.
There are technologies to utilise this energy, in particular the Organic Rankine Cycle.
The severity of the punishment will be determined on whether Rankine relinquishes either shareholding.
The Rankine cycle is the fundamental thermodynamic underpinning of the steam engine.
The condenser of the Rankine cycle is usually cooled by water from a lake, river, sea or cooling towers.

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