| 单词 | available energy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasavailable energy available energy n. the (quantity of) energy provided by or to a system, process, etc., that can be made use of or converted into some other form of energy; esp. the energy in a system that can be converted into work.Cf. free energy n., and in particular Helmholtz free energy n. ΚΠ 1855 Papers on Duties Corps Royal Engineers New Ser. IV. 138 The resistance of the liquid had..increased 18 per cent., and the electro-motive force 1 per cent.; but the two together had reduced the available energy of the battery from 775½ to 753⅓. 1871 J. C. Maxwell Theory of Heat xii. 186 Only a part of the whole intrinsic energy of the system is capable of being converted into mechanical work by actions going on within the vessel, and without any communication with external space... This part is sometimes called the Available Energy of the System. 1935 Discovery May 133/2 The universe is..moving inevitably from a state of high organisation and available energy to one of low organisation and ‘unusable’ energy. 1964 H. H. Mitchell Compar. Nutrition Man & Domestic Animals II. xviii. 480 In terms commonly used in human nutrition, the fuel value or available energy in the diet would be 2745 cal. 2015 M. H. Siddiqui et al. Nanotechnol. & Plant Sci. ii. 29 Plants convert only 2–4 % of the available energy in radiation into new plant growth. < as lemmas |
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