1. Noun
Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.
2. Noun
Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.
3. Noun
Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.
4. Noun
Capacity for performing work.
5. Noun
The capacity to do work
6. Noun
The capacity to do work or produce heat in an organism
7. Noun
(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; "energy can take a wide variety of forms"
Vocabulary classified under Physics
8. Noun
a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
9. Noun
an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style"
Vocabulary classified under History
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