Colour Temperature: Colours are warm, hot or cold in appearance; orange, red, blue. This is true within each category of colour. There are hotter and colder colours in every category.

 

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Colour Temperature: Colours are warm, hot or cold in appearance; orange, red, blue. This is true within each category of colour. There are hotter and colder colours in every category.

Sea Surface Temperature (SST): The temperature of the water's surface. It is measured using buoy and ship data, infrared satellite imagery, and coastal observations.

Receding Colours: Pale or cool colours tend to recede into the background, thus they give us the impression of distance.

NEC Temperature Code (T Code): An index for describing maximum allowable 'skin' (surface) temperature of a motor under any normal or abnormal operating conditions. The 'T' codes are applicable to U.L. Iisted explosion-pro . . . View Full Definition

Kelvin Temperature Scale: A temperature scale with the freezing point of +273°K (Kelvin) and the boiling point of +373° K. It is used primarily for scientific purposes. Also known as the Absolute Temperature Scale. P . . . View Full Definition

Mean Temperature: The average of temperature readings taken over a specified amount of time. Often the average of the maximum and minimum temperatures.

Standard Temperature And Pressure: Used to describe a substance at standard pressure and a temperature of 0°C (273.15 K).

Temperature: The measure of molecular motion or the degree of heat of a substance. It is measured on an arbitrary scale from absolute zero, where the molecules theoretically stop moving. It is also the d . . . View Full Definition

Vertical Temperature Profile: A series of temperature measurements taken at various levels in the atmosphere that show the thermal structure of the atmosphere over a specific location. Obtained through a rawinsonde sound . . . View Full Definition

Watercolour: In the purist sense this implies working only with transparent colours on white paper; attaining many of the colour mixes and tones by overpainting again and again; for example, yellow over . . . View Full Definition