a Scottish and Northern Irish surname, variant of Rankin

A Scottish and Northern Irish surname, from a diminutive of the name Ronald. / A village in Vermilion County, Illinois. / An unincorporated community in Andrew County, Missouri.

(physics) A thermodynamic cycle used as an ideal standard for the comparative performance of heat engines.

A unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 5/9 kelvin, and derived by offsetting the Fahrenheit scale to absolute zero.

A scale for measuring temperature, with zero defined as absolute zero and degrees having the same measure as the degree Fahrenheit of the Fahrenheit scale.

plural of degree Rankine

One of 82 counties in Mississippi, United States. County seat: Brandon.