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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.