Carnot

American  

[kahr-noh, kar-noh] / kɑrˈnoʊ, karˈnoʊ /

noun

1. Lazare Nicolas Marguerite 1753–1823, French general and statesman.

2. (Marie François) Sadi 1837–94, French statesman: president of the Republic 1887–94.

3. Nicolas Léonard Sadi 1796–1832, French physicist: pioneer in the field of thermodynamics.

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Carnot British  

/ ˈkɑːnəʊ, karno /

noun

1. Lazare ( Nicolas Marguerite ) (lazar), known as the Organizer of Victory . 1753–1823, French military engineer and administrator: organized the French Revolutionary army (1793–95)

2. Nicolas Léonard Sadi (nikɔlɑ leɔnar sadi). 1796–1832, French physicist, whose work formed the basis for the second law of thermodynamics, enunciated in 1850; author of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (1824).

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Carnot Scientific  

/ kär-nō′ /

1. French physicist and engineer who founded the science of thermodynamics. He was the first to analyze the working cycle and efficiency of the steam engine according to scientific principles. Through his experiments Carnot developed what would become the second law of thermodynamics and laid the foundation for work by Kelvin, Joule, and others.

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Example Sentences

Nearly two centuries ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot established the theoretical maximum efficiency that any heat engine can achieve.

From Science Daily

Yet lowering the bar to 16, as Belgium did for these elections, shows improvement, Carnot said.

From Seattle Times

Instead, they gathered on the edge of the city, on the Boulevard Carnot.

From Seattle Times

Stroud, her husband Stephane Carnot, and their daughter Olivia, then 17, had consulted primary care doctors in a fruitless attempt to identify the cause of their headaches, dizziness, vomiting and exhaustion.

From Washington Post

After all, Sadi Carnot finally produced a satisfactory theory of the steam engine only in 1824, more than a hundred years after Newcomen’s first engine, and sixty years after Watt’s.

From Literature