absolute scale in a sentence

Examples

1. Things were now valued not on an absolute scale, but by discovering if one was in tune with one's group.
2. On an absolute scale, the A's pitching is terrible, but in the American League, which more and more resembles slow-pitch softball, it's exactly average.
3. Thermal efficiency is given by / T } }, where T is the exhaust temperature ( any absolute scale ) and T is the peak combustion temperature.
4. Temperature is basically defined for a body in its own state of internal thermodynamic equilibrium, and in this definition, on an absolute scale, it is always positive.
5. Pressure is frequently measured with reference to atmospheric pressure rather than on any absolute scale, relative to complete and perfect vacuum; it is technologically simpler and cheaper.
6. The writer is convinced that it is useful, in epistemological discussions, to abandon the idealization that the level of human intelligence has a singular position on an absolute scale.
7. The use of live steam as the predominant motive power of the models means absolute scale reproduction is often sacrificed to the demands of steam engineering at this scale.
8. Thus if the same type of thermometer is calibrated in the same way its readings will be valid even if it is slightly inaccurate compared to the absolute scale.
9. What is often confusing about the Celsius measurement is that it follows an interval system but not a ratio system; that it follows a relative scale not an absolute scale.
10. First, Wikipedia's success as an encyclopedia should be evaluated, not relative to itself, but relative to the more absolute scale of other encyclopedias, such as the " Encyclop�dia Britannica ".