"Rankine scale" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "engineer and physicist",
        "2": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": ""
      },
      "expansion": "engineer and physicist",
      "name": "named-after/list"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "|",
      "name": "!"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "William John Macquorn Rankine"
      },
      "expansion": "William John Macquorn Rankine",
      "name": "lang"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "William John Macquorn Rankine",
        "born": "1820",
        "died": "1872",
        "nat": "Scottish",
        "occ": "engineer and physicist",
        "wplink": "William Rankine"
      },
      "expansion": "Named after Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872)",
      "name": "named-after"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named after Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) who proposed the scale in 1859.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Rankine scale",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the Rankine scale",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "Celsius scale"
        },
        {
          "word": "Fahrenheit scale"
        },
        {
          "word": "Kelvin scale"
        },
        {
          "word": "Réaumur scale"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-Rankine_scale-en-name-rANhzHJo",
      "links": [
        [
          "absolute zero",
          "absolute zero"
        ],
        [
          "measure",
          "measure"
        ],
        [
          "degree Fahrenheit",
          "degree Fahrenheit"
        ],
        [
          "Fahrenheit scale",
          "Fahrenheit scale"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Rankine scale"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Rankine scale"
}

{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "Celsius scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "Fahrenheit scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "Kelvin scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "Réaumur scale"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "engineer and physicist",
        "2": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": ""
      },
      "expansion": "engineer and physicist",
      "name": "named-after/list"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "|",
      "name": "!"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "William John Macquorn Rankine"
      },
      "expansion": "William John Macquorn Rankine",
      "name": "lang"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "William John Macquorn Rankine",
        "born": "1820",
        "died": "1872",
        "nat": "Scottish",
        "occ": "engineer and physicist",
        "wplink": "William Rankine"
      },
      "expansion": "Named after Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872)",
      "name": "named-after"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named after Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) who proposed the scale in 1859.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Rankine scale",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the Rankine scale",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "absolute zero",
          "absolute zero"
        ],
        [
          "measure",
          "measure"
        ],
        [
          "degree Fahrenheit",
          "degree Fahrenheit"
        ],
        [
          "Fahrenheit scale",
          "Fahrenheit scale"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Rankine scale"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Rankine scale"
}