- Carnot heat engine
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English-german technical dictionary. 2013.
English-german technical dictionary. 2013.
Carnot heat engine — A Carnot heat engine [In French, Carnot uses machine à feu , which Thurston translates as heat engine or steam engine . In a footnote, Carnot distinguishes the steam engine ( machine à vapeur ) from the heat engine in general. (Carnot, 1824, p. 5 … Wikipedia
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Carnot heat machine — Karno mašina statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. Carnot engine; Carnot heat machine; Carnot machine vok. Carnot Maschine, f rus. машина Карно, f pranc. machine de Carnot, f … Fizikos terminų žodynas
Timeline of heat engine technology — Heat engines have been known since antiquity but were only made into useful devices at the time of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century. They continue to be developed today.In engineering and thermodynamics, a heat engine performs… … Wikipedia
Carnot's theorem (thermodynamics) — Carnot s theorem, also called Carnot s rule is a principle which sets a limit on the maximum amount of efficiency any possible engine can obtain, which thus solely depends on the difference between the hot and cold temperature reservoirs. Carnot… … Wikipedia
Carnot — is the name of a celebrated French family in politics and science with the following members:*Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (1753 1823), mathematician and politician. *Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796 1832), mathematician and eldest son of… … Wikipedia
Carnot cycle — The Carnot cycle is a particular thermodynamic cycle, modeled on the hypothetical Carnot heat engine, proposed by Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot in 1824 and expanded upon by Benoit Paul Émile Clapeyron in the 1830s and 40s. Every thermodynamic… … Wikipedia
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Carnot's cycle — Car not s cy cle (k[aum]r n[=o]z ). [After N. L. S. Carnot, French physicist.] (Thermodynamics) An ideal heat engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations: (1) Isothermal expansion to a desired… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Engine — This article is about a machine to convert energy into useful mechanical motion. For other uses of engine, see Engine (disambiguation). For other uses of motor, see Motor (disambiguation). A V6 internal combustion engine from a Mercedes car An… … Wikipedia