Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The physical law stating that the volume of a fixed mass of gas held at a constant pressure varies directly with the absolute temperature.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
law .
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- noun physics the
law that thedensity of anideal gas isinversely proportional to itstemperature at constantpressure
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- noun (physics) the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the temperature
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Jacques Alexandre César Charles, (1746–1823), French physicist and inventor.]
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from Jacques Charles French scientist
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