(physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force an…
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Not giving out or receiving heat.
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the transmission of heat or electricity or sound
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.the transmission of heat or electricity or sound
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure; "entha…
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure; "entha…
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.any process that is not reversible
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.of a process or change taking place at constant temperature
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.any process in which a system can be made to pass through the same states in the reverse order when the process is reversed
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.a law stating that mechanical work can be derived from a body only when that body interacts with another at a lower temperature; any s…
Used in the same subject area: Thermodynamics, Physics.the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance one degree centigrade
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Inability to transmit radiant heat; impermeability to heat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientifi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.Production of heat, esp. animal heat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates befor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: giving, receiving, heat.A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…
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