rotation
rotary motion | the act of rotating as if on an axis, the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music |
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 |
axis
axis of rotation | the center around which something rotates |
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 |
| rotation | a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.), crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil, the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation |
| 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 |
kinetic theory
kinetic theory of gases | (physics) a theory that gases consist of small particles in random motion |
| kinetic theory of heat | a theory that the temperature of a body increases when kinetic energy increases |
rotation
revolution
gyration | a single complete turn (axial or orbital), the plane made three rotations before it crashed, the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year |
dextrorotation
clockwise rotation | rotation to the right |
levorotation
counterclockwise rotation | rotation to the left |
axial rotation
axial motion
roll | rotary motion of an object around its own axis, wheels in axial rotation |
orbital rotation
orbital motion | motion of an object in an orbit around a fixed point, satellites in orbital rotation |
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 |
| rotation | (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin |
energy
vim
vitality | a healthy capacity for vigorous activity, jogging works off my excess energy, he seemed full of vim and vigor |
constructive-metabolic
energy-storing(a) | of or relating to anabolism |