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 |
light
light source | any device serving as a source of illumination, he stopped the car and turned off the lights |
| source | a facility where something is available |
| source of illumination | any device serving as a source of visible electromagnetic radiation |
ultraviolet lamp
ultraviolet source | any source of illumination that emits ultraviolet radiation |
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 |
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 |
source
seed
germ | anything that provides inspiration for later work |
| 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 |
| source language | a language that is to be translated into another language |
| source code | program instructions written as an ASCII text file, must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution |
| source book | a collection of historically important documents published together as a book |
| source program | a program written in a language from which statements are translated into machine language |
| source | a document (or organization) from which information is obtained, the reporter had two sources for the story |
| source materials | publications from which information is obtained |
| reference source | a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to, he carried an armful of references back to his desk, he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation |
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 |
beginning
origin
root
rootage
source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being, the Italian beginning of the Renaissance, Jupiter was the origin of the radiation, Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River, communism's Russian root |
| point source | a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted |
psychic energy
mental energy | an actuating force or factor |
| libidinal energy | (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido |
quasar
quasi-stellar radio source | a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy, many have large red shifts |
| radio source | an object that radiates radio waves |
reservoir
source | anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies, an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival |
generator
source
author | someone who originates or causes or initiates something, he was the generator of several complaints |
informant
source | a person who supplies information |
| passive source | an informant who is not assigned to obtain specific intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever information he or she has |
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 |