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energetics
[ en-er-jet-iks ]
noun
, (used with a singular verb)
- the branch of physics that deals with energy.
energetics
/ ˌɛnəˈdʒɛtɪks /
noun
- functioning as singular the branch of science concerned with energy and its transformations
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Other Words From
- ener·geti·cist noun
- en·er·ge·tis·tic [en-er-ji-, tis, -tik], adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of energetics1
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Example Sentences
Energetics took its rise as an outcome of the discovery of the principle of the conservation of energy.
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A book full of the energetics of a master workman is just what every young man cares for.
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It is a case in which the simple doctrine of energetics becomes inadequate before the limit is reached.
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It was by the study of heat, and more especially of thermodynamics, that we obtained our conceptions of the science of energetics.
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We must therefore add a third to the two laws of energetics, Mayer's law of conservation, and Carnot's law of fall of potential.
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