Pronunciation Noun
coldness
- The relative lack of heat.
- The sensation resulting from exposure to low temperatures.
- Limited enthusiasm or affection; coolness.
- (physics) The reciprocal of absolute temperature.
- 1969, W. A. Day and Morton E. Gurtin, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 1, Springer, pages 26–32:
- The coldness is the reciprocal of absolute temperature.
- 1971, Ingo Müller, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 41, Issue 5, Springer, pages 319-332:
- (article title) The coldness, a universal function in thermoelastic bodies.
- 1972, Ingo Müller, Entropy, Absolute Temperature, and Coldness in Thermodynamics: Boundary Conditions in Porous Materials Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Springer-Verlag, Wein GMBH, page 3:
- This function will be called the coldness, its equilibrium value will be the reciprocal of absolute temperature.
- 1975, J. Meixner, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 57, Issue 3, Springer, pages 281-290:
- (article title) Coldness and Temperature.
- 1995, Claude Garrod, Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Oxford University Press, page 111:
- α is called the affinity, β the inverse temperature or coldness, and γ the free expansion coefficient.
- 1969, W. A. Day and Morton E. Gurtin, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 1, Springer, pages 26–32:
- French: froideur
- German: Kälte
- Italian: freddezza
- Portuguese: frieza, frio
- Russian: хо́лод
- Spanish: frialdad, displicencia
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