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单词 maxwell demon
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Maxwell demon


noun Physics.

a hypothetical agent or device of arbitrarily small mass that is considered to admit or block selectively the passage of individual molecules from one compartment to another according to their speed, constituting a violation of the second law of thermodynamics.

Origin of Maxwell demon

First recorded in 1875–80; after J. C. Maxwell

Words nearby Maxwell demon

Max Müller, max out, maxwell, Maxwell Air Force Base, Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, Maxwell demon, Maxwell, James Clerk, Maxwell Montes, Maxwell's demon, Maxwell's equations, Maxwell's field equations
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