See Also: Reaumur scale(medicine)
Around-the-Corner Straight - Poker(gambling)
Reaumur(dictionary)
Reaumur, Rene de(medicine)
Reaumur, Rene-Antoine Ferchault de(encyclopedia)
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Around-the-Corner Straight - Poker (gambling) and Reaumur scale (medicine)


Around-the-Corner Straight - Poker (gambling)


In high draw Poker, a special straight, a nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or Home game, five cards in a series in which the sequence of cards is considered to continue from king through ace, as, for example, J-Q-K-A-2. Sometimes the hand ranks between three of a kind and a "normal" straight; sometimes it ranks between a "normal" straight and a flush.

Reaumur scale (medicine)


Reaumur scale


A thermometer scale in which each degree Reaumur (°R) is 1/80 of the temperature difference between the freezing point and boiling point of pure water at 1 atmosphere pressure, with 0°R set at the freezing point and 80°R set at the boiling point of water.