thermodynamic system

American  

noun

Physics.

1. a system whose states of equilibrium can be specified by a few macroscopic properties.

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Example Sentences

If you want to predict what will happen in a crowd when a tear gas grenade goes off, you can treat people as particles in a thermodynamic system.

From Scientific American

Typically, entropy refers to a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system’s disorder.

From Forbes