Kelvin (disambiguation)

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Kelvin (symbol: K) is the SI base unit of temperature.

Kelvin may also refer to:

People

• William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist, engineer, and namesake of the term Kelvin
• Ray Kelvin (born 1955), British businessman
• Rob Kelvin (born 1944), Australian newsman
• Kelvin (given name), a list of people with the name

Places

Companies

• Kelvin Central Buses, Scottish transport company
• Kelvin Diesels, Scottish manufacturer of marine diesel engines
• Kelvin Hughes, Scottish marine systems company
• Kelvin Scottish, Scottish transport company

Science and technology

• Kelvin bridge, a measuring instrument
• Kelvin's circulation theorem
• Kelvin equation
• Kelvin foam
• Kelvin functions
• Kelvin Gold Medal, British engineering prize named after Lord Kelvin
• Kelvin Medal and Prize, British physics prize named after Lord Kelvin
• Kelvin problem and Kelvin structure, in the theory of bubbles
• Kelvin sensing, a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement
• Kelvin transform
• Kelvin wave

Vessels

• HMS Kelvin (F37), a ship
• SS Lord Kelvin, a cable ship
• USS Kelvin, a fictional starship in the movie Star Trek (2009)

Other uses

• Kelvin High School, in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
• Joule-Kelvin effect

See also

• Kelvin Grove (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with Kelvin
• All pages with a title containing Kelvin