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How to use coldness in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Coldness means the relative lack of heat. Example: “The coldness is the reciprocal of absolute temperature.”

Examples of coldness by meaning

nounThe reciprocal of absolute temperature.

  • The coldness is the reciprocal of absolute temperature.1969, W. A. Day, Morton E. Gurtin, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, volume 33, number 1, Springer, pages 26–32
  • (article title) The coldness, a universal function in thermoelastic bodies.1971, Ingo Müller, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, volume 41, number 5, Springer, pages 319–332
  • This function will be called the coldness, its equilibrium value will be the reciprocal of absolute temperature.1972, Ingo Müller, Entropy, Absolute Temperature, and Coldness in Thermodynamics: Boundary Conditions in Porous Materials Archive for...

More sentences with coldness

  • Her eyes had a reptilian coldness about them as well.2011, Michelle Dalton, Sixteenth Summer, Simon Pulse, page 204. From the entry turtleish
  • The typical characteristic attituded toward the English is coldness.2008, Yvonne Müller, "The Absentee": an Interpretation - an Analysis of Maria Edgeworth's Novel, page 12. From the entry attitude
  • Widmark played hard-bitten commanders whose apparent coldness and cruelty masked a deeper concern with the safety of their men.2008 March 29, Dave Kehr, “A Star Who Mastered a New Moral Ambiguity”, in New York Times. From the entry equivocality
  • Félicité's life is a devoted one, despite the coldness of her employer, that sourhearted mistress of the simple heart.2001, Charles Neider, Short Novels of the Masters, page 31. From the entry sourhearted
  • It seemed conscious, malevolent, purposive in its intense murderous coldness.1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 29, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for…. From the entry purposive
  • They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 136. From the entry dampness
  • The fourteenth of February in London was quite as black, and cold, and as wintersome as it was at Allington, and was, perhaps, somewhat more melancholy in its coldness.2008, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, page 321. From the entry wintersome
  • She therefore had remarkable advantages over her rivals, for her well-known indifference and coldness were a sort of virginity which any one would have been glad to take from her.1901, F.C. de Sumichrast, The Complete Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 6 (IV), Bigelow, Smith and Company, page 44. From the entry hyperdiabolical

Meaning of coldness

  1. noun The relative lack of heat.
  2. noun The sensation resulting from exposure to low temperatures.
  3. noun Limited enthusiasm or affection; coolness.

Full definition of coldness

Questions about coldness in a sentence

How do you use coldness in a sentence?
Coldness is used as a noun. For example: “The coldness is the reciprocal of absolute temperature.”
What is a short sentence with coldness?
“The coldness is the reciprocal of absolute temperature.”
What does coldness mean?
Coldness means the relative lack of heat.

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