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Definition of Energy

1. Noun. (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"

2. Noun. Forceful exertion. "He's full of zip"

3. Noun. Enterprising or ambitious drive. "Europeans often laugh at American energy"

4. Noun. An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing). "A remarkable muscularity of style"

5. Noun. A healthy capacity for vigorous activity. "He seemed full of vim and vigor"

6. Noun. Any source of usable power. "The DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy"

7. Noun. The federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977.

Definition of Energy

1. n. Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.

Definition of Energy

1. the capacity for vigorous activity [n -GIES]

Medical Definition of Energy

1. Typically defined as the ability to do work. Power is the rate at which work is done, or the rate at which energy is changed. Work characterises the degree to which the properties of a substance are transformed. Energy exists in many forms, which can be converted from one to another in various ways. Examples include: gravitational energy, electrical energy, magnetic and electric field energy, atomic binding energy (a form of electrical energy really), nuclear binding energy, chemical energy (another form of electrical energy), in addition to these forms of potential energy there are also kinetic energy (energy due to motion), and thermal energy (heat, a form of kinetic energy where the motion is due to thermal vibrations/motions), and so on. (09 Oct 1997)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Energy

energises energising energization energizations energize energized energizer energizers energizes energizing

energometer energumen energumen energumens energy (current term) energy (current term) energy-absorbing energy-generating resources energy-releasing energy-releasing(a)

energy-rich bond energy-rich phosphates energy-storing(a) energy balance energy confinement time energy coupling energy crop Energy Department Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy energy intake

Literary usage of Energy

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1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"When the field is off, however, the ions are retained in the apace between the plates and sooner or later, one or more of them, by virtue of its energy of ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"This portion is called the available energy of the system subject to the given ... In order, however, to completely define the available energy of a system, ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Like potential energy, this energy is relative and is due to the motion of ... The energy is therefore possessed in common by the system consisting of the ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"So long as it is conceived as a species of the energy :uus, interchangeable with other species at exact (as yet undeter- ined) equivalent, the difference ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"For example, breaking the BF я- bonds in BF3 would require energy so the net AH{ ... These molecules obviously do not have the same reorganization energy. ..."

6. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1897)
"PRESENT STATUS OF THE TRANSMISSION DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICAL energy. BY LOUIS DUNCAN. The industrial life of mankind is made up of two things. ..."

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