rescue
deliverance
delivery
saving | recovery or preservation from loss or danger, work is the deliverance of mankind, a surgeon's job is the saving of lives |
economy
saving | an act of economizing, reduction in cost, it was a small economy to walk to work every day, there was a saving ofcents |
Secretary of Energy
Energy Secretary | the position of the head of the Department of Energy, the post of Energy Secretary was created in |
waste of effort
waste of energy | a useless effort |
preservation
saving | the activity of protecting something from loss or danger |
face saver
face saving | an act that avoids a loss of face (of dignity or prestige) |
wind farm
wind park
wind energy facility | a power plant that uses wind turbines to generate electricity |
| energy muscularity vigor vigour vim | an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing), his writing conveys great energy, a remarkable muscularity of style |
| saving grace | a redeeming quality or characteristic, her love of music remains her one saving grace, her sense of humor has to be a saving grace, the saving grace for both developments is that they are creating jobs |
energy push
get-up-and-go | enterprising or ambitious drive, Europeans often laugh at American energy |
| mass energy | (physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy |
energy
vigor vigour zip | forceful exertion, he plays tennis with great energy, he's full of zip |
| mass-energy equivalence | (physics) the principle that a measured quantity of mass is equivalent (according to relativity theory) to a measured quantity of energy |
particle physics
high-energy physics
high energy physics | the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions |
conservation of energy
law of conservation of energy
first law of thermodynamics | the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes |
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC | a former executive agency (from to ) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States |
Department of Energy
Energy Department
Energy
DOE | the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States, created in |
Department of Energy Intelligence
DOEI | an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community |
International Atomic Energy Agency
IAEA | the United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy |
psychic energy
mental energy | an actuating force or factor |
| libidinal energy | (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido |
Secretary of Energy
Energy Secretary | the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Energy, the first Secretary of Energy was James R. Schlesinger who was appointed by Carter |
activation energy
energy of activation | the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur, catalysts are said to reduce the energy of activation during the transition phase of a reaction |
| alternative energy | energy derived from sources that do not use up natural resources or harm the environment |
atomic energy
nuclear energy | the energy released by a nuclear reaction |
binding energy
separation energy | the energy required to separate particles from a molecule or atom or nucleus, equals the mass defect |
| chemical energy | that part of the energy in a substance that can be released by a chemical reaction |
elastic energy
elastic potential energy | potential energy that is stored when a body is deformed (as in a coiled spring) |
| electricity electrical energy | energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor, they built a car that runs on electricity |
| energy | any source of usable power, the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy |
energy
free energy | (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work, the units of energy are joules or ergs, energy can take a wide variety of forms |
energy level
energy state | a definite stable energy that a physical system can have, used especially of the state of electrons in atoms or molecules, according to quantum theory only certain energy levels are possible |
| rest energy | the energy equivalent to the mass of a particle at rest in an inertial frame of reference, equal to the rest mass times the square of the speed of light |
heat
heat energy | a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature |
| geothermal energy | energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth |
kinetic energy
K.E. | the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its motion |
| luminous energy | the energy associated with visible light |
| mechanical energy | energy in a mechanical form |
potential energy
P.E. | the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its position, stored energy |
| radiant energy | energy that is transmitted in the form of (electromagnetic) radiation, energy that exists in the absence of matter |
solar energy
solar power | energy from the sun that is converted into thermal or electrical energy, the amount of energy falling on the earth is given by the solar constant, but very little use has been made of solar energy |
work unit
heat unit
energy unit | a unit of measurement for work |
energy
vim
vitality | a healthy capacity for vigorous activity, jogging works off my excess energy, he seemed full of vim and vigor |
grace
saving grace
state of grace | (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God, the state of one who is under such divine influence, the conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin, it was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church, the Virgin lived in a state of grace |
daylight-saving time
daylight-savings time
daylight saving
daylight savings | time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time, widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings |
constructive-metabolic
energy-storing(a) | of or relating to anabolism |
destructive-metabolic
energy-releasing(a) | of or relating to catabolism |
high-octane
high-powered
high-power
high-voltage
high-energy | vigorously energetic or forceful, a high-octane sales manager, a high-octane marketing plan, high-powered executives, a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur |
endoergic
energy-absorbing | (of a nuclear reaction) occurring with absorption of energy |
exoergic
energy-releasing | (of a nuclear reaction) occurring with evolution or releasing of energy |