Meaning of virtual temperature in English:
virtual temperature
noun
The temperature that something would have to have in order to compensate for some physical effect; (in later use) Meteorology the temperature that dry air would have to have in order to have the same density as a given body of moist air when at the same pressure.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Nature: a weekly journal of science.
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