Carnot

[ kahr-noh; French kar-noh ]

noun

1. La·zare Ni·co·las Mar·gue·rite [l, a, -, zar, nee-kaw-, lah, m, a, r, -g, uh, -, reet], 1753–1823, French general and statesman.
2. (Ma·rie François) Sa·di [m, uh, -, ree, fran-, swah, , sad, -ee, m, a, -, ree, f, r, ah, n, -, swa, s, a, -, dee], 1837–94, French statesman: president of the Republic 1887–94.
3. Ni·co·las Lé·o·nard Sa·di [nik, -, uh, -l, uh, s , len, -erd , sad, -ee, nee-kaw-, lah, ley-aw-, nar, s, a, -, dee], 1796–1832, French physicist: pioneer in the field of thermodynamics.

Carnot

/ ˈkɑːnəʊ; karno /

noun

1. CarnotLazare (Nicolas Marguerite)17531823MFrenchTECHNOLOGY: engineerPOLITICS: administrator Lazare ( Nicolas Marguerite ) (lazar), known as the Organizer of Victory . 1753–1823, French military engineer and administrator: organized the French Revolutionary army (1793–95)
2. CarnotNicolas Léonard Sadi17961832MFrenchSCIENCE: physicist Nicolas Léonard Sadi (nikɔlɑ leɔnar sadi). 1796–1832, French physicist, whose work formed the basis for the second law of thermodynamics, enunciated in 1850; author of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (1824).

Carnot

/ kär-nō′ /

1. French physicist and engineer who founded the science of thermodynamics. He was the first to analyze the working cycle and efficiency of the steam engine according to scientific principles. Through his experiments Carnot developed what would become the second law of thermodynamics and laid the foundation for work by Kelvin, Joule, and others.

Example Sentences

Yet lowering the bar to 16, as Belgium did for these elections, shows improvement, Carnot said.

From Seattle Times

Instead, they gathered on the edge of the city, on the Boulevard Carnot.

From Seattle Times

Stroud, her husband Stephane Carnot, and their daughter Olivia, then 17, had consulted primary care doctors in a fruitless attempt to identify the cause of their headaches, dizziness, vomiting and exhaustion.

From Washington Post

After all, Sadi Carnot finally produced a satisfactory theory of the steam engine only in 1824, more than a hundred years after Newcomen’s first engine, and sixty years after Watt’s.

From Literature

These figures include pioneer Sadi Carnot, the first to describe an ideal heat-driven engine, and mathematician Emmy Noether, whose theorems on the conservation of energy vindicated Einstein.

From Scientific American