virtual temperature
noun
The temperature that something would have to have in order to compensate for some physical effect; (in later use) Meteorology the temperature that dry air would have to have in order to have the same density as a given body of moist air when at the same pressure.
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Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Nature: a weekly journal of science.
- cooler
- cooler bag
- Cooley's anaemia
- Coolgardie
- Coolgardie safe
- cool-headed
- cool-headedness
- cool-hearted
- coolhouse
- cool hunter
- cool hunting
- coolibah
- Coolidge, Calvin
- Coolidge tube
- coolie
- Coolie Christmas
- coolie hat
- coolieism
- coolie line
- cooling board
- cooling card
- cooling center
- cooling coil
- cooling curve
- cooling fin