Carnot engine

noun

, Thermodynamics.

1. an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.

Example Sentences

Instead of leaving the heat abandoned by the body subjected to the transformation—water condensing in a state of saturated vapour, for instance—to pass directly into an ice calorimeter, we can transmit this heat to the calorimeter by the intermediary of a reversible Carnot engine.

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