conversion rebirth
spiritual rebirth | a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life |
| conversion | a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown |
| conversion | the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another |
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 |
| conversion | act of exchanging one type of money or security for another |
solar array
solar battery
solar panel | electrical device consisting of a large array of connected solar cells |
solar cell
photovoltaic cell | a cell that converts solar energy into electrical energy |
solar dish
solar collector
solar furnace | a concave mirror that concentrates the rays of the sun, can produce high temperatures |
| solar heater | a heater that makes direct use of solar energy |
| solar house | a house designed to use solar radiation for heating, usually has large areas of glass in front of heat-absorbing materials |
| solar telescope | a telescope designed to make observations of the sun |
| solar thermal system | a system that converts sunlight into heat |
suntrap
solar trap | a terrace or garden oriented to take advantage of the sun while protected from cold winds |
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 |
solar plexus
coeliac plexus
plexus celiacus
abdominal nerve plexus | a large plexus of sympathetic nerves in the abdomen behind the stomach |
| conversion | a change in the units or form of an expression: conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade |
| data conversion | conversion from one way of encoding data to another way |
| mass-energy equivalence | (physics) the principle that a measured quantity of mass is equivalent (according to relativity theory) to a measured quantity of energy |
| solar physics | the branch of astronomy that deals with the sun |
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 |
| conversion | interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition |
| conversion | a change of religion, his conversion to the Catholic faith |
| solar eclipse | the moon interrupts light from the sun |
conversion
transition
changeover | an event that results in a transformation |
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 |
apex solar apex
apex of the sun's way | the point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars |
psychic energy
mental energy | an actuating force or factor |
| libidinal energy | (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido |
| solar system | the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field |
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 |