kinetic temperature

English

Noun

kinetic temperature (plural kinetic temperatures)

  1. (astronomy) a measure of the energy of motion possessed by a substance; especially a function of the root mean square velocity of the molecules of a gas

References
  • "Astronomy" by Donald H. Menzel, Second Printing
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