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Rankine is a small lunar impact crater near the eastern limb of the Moon. It lies on the southern floor of the satellite crater Maclaurin B, a 43-kilometer-diameter feature which is located to the southeast of Maclaurin. To the east of Rankine is the crater Gilbert, and directly to the south is von Behring.
This is an insignificant, bowl-shaped formation with a negligible interior floor. The crater is circular and symmetrical, and the sloping interior walls are nearly featureless (although they have a slightly higher albedo than the surrounding terrain.) It is otherwise indistinguishable from many other comparably sized craters on the Moon.
Rankine most commonly refers to:
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William Rankine (1820–1872), Scottish engineer and physicist
- Rankine scale, an absolute-temperature scale related to the Fahrenheit scale, named for Rankine
- Rankine cycle, a thermodynamic heat-engine cycle, also named after Rankine
- Rankine Lecture, a named lecture delivered annually by an expert in the field of geotechnics.
Usage examples of "rankine".
Bodie, Jake and Rankine also came from cover, firing as they advanced, taking steady steps with each discharge, cutting through the muties.
They were too close to Rankine for the youngster to risk a shot, so he holstered his Browning Hi-Power and flew at them.
Dean said suddenly, moving in front of Rankine to help Bodie lift one of the poles.
One was Rankine, and as he passed without noticing Jak, the albino saw that the sec man's face was grim and set.
While they assembled the small party and headed off, he directed two more to join Rankine and Downey in laying down covering fire.