Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the flow and transformation of energy.
- noun The flow and transformation of energy within a particular system.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of the general laws of energy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics The branch of
physics that studies theflow andtransformation ofenergy - noun The flow and transformation of energy within a specific system or device
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Examples
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Although if you believe in energetics, control is an illusion.
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We cannot object to the construction of bigger and bigger thermonuclear power stations or research into nuclear physics, since energetics is one of the bases of our civilization.
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The exponents of what is called "energetics" have in many cases come to regard that the quantity of which is so conserved, as a substantial reality whose forms and distributions compose nature.
The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916
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The best systematic presentation of "energetics" is to be found in
The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916
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The first thing to remember, according to Garner, is that the lives of black bears are governed by "energetics," which means they will go to the place where they can get the highest energy food with the least amount of effort.
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We seem to be hard-wired into receiving streaming images from TV, film, print and our social media, fiercely flashing before us at strobe-light speed, yet never quite lingering long enough for us to take a really deep look into the energetics behind the images.
Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity Heather McCloskey Beck 2011
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We seem to be hard-wired into receiving streaming images from TV, film, print and our social media, fiercely flashing before us at strobe-light speed, yet never quite lingering long enough for us to take a really deep look into the energetics behind the images.
Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity Heather McCloskey Beck 2011
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We seem to be hard-wired into receiving streaming images from TV, film, print and our social media, fiercely flashing before us at strobe-light speed, yet never quite lingering long enough for us to take a really deep look into the energetics behind the images.
Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity Heather McCloskey Beck 2011
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In 1913, he presented an epoch making lecture on the energetics of living cells.
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010
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Deputy minister of industry, energetics and fuel life Gulbarchyn Asanova told that there was a significant recession in the production of the building materials had a According to her words, the reason is Kazakhstan's rejection to buy the Kyrgyz production.
Global Voices in English » Does Global Financial Crisis Affect Kyrgyzstan? 2009
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