| 单词 | energy budget |
| 释义 | > as lemmasenergy budget energy budget n. (a) the amount of energy available for use in a given context; a plan for how this energy is to be allocated; (b) Biology an estimate of the amounts of energy obtained and expended by an organism or ecosystem. ΚΠ 1913 Woman Citizen's Libr. IX. 2391 Energy-Budgets for Homes... It is just as necessary to have budgets of energy and time for household work as to have budgets for money spending. 1926 Ohio Jrnl. Sci. 26 5 The work of the animal physiologists, and the studies of non-green plants have shown that an energy budget can be calculated from the heat equivalents of food substances consumed. 1996 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 13 Mar. f5 To be able to run from a battery, manufacturers have had to get power consumption of all the components to fit into a finite energy budget. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes v. 66/2 Energy budgets can aid in understanding the energy intake and utilization of an individual. 2017 New Scientist 22 Apr. 36/3 Most of us are spending 20 per cent of our basic energy budget taking care of muscle mass. < as lemmas |
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