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conservation of energy en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) a principle stating that energy may not be created or destroyed
    • Like the concept of conservation of mass, the idea of conservation of energy is also applicable to all chemical reactions. 2005, S C Rastogi, Cell Biology, New Age International, →ISBN, page 2:
    • Temperatures decrease with altitude due to adiabatic cooling (a rising parcel of air expands, and must therefore cool due to conservation of energy). 2008, A Regularization Technique for the Analysis of Photographic Data Used in Chemical Release Wind Measurements, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 2:
    • The net result is the black hole loses mass (due to conservation of energy). year unknown, Large Hadron Collider, PediaPress, page 131
    • This contribution reduces with increasing distance p from the emitting surface element dA, due to conservation of energy, as the wave energy distributed across the spherical wave front remains constant, while the radius increases during ... 1998, Dieter Schuocker, Handbook of the Eurolaser Academy, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 51:
    • Robert Mayer is well known as one of the several codiscoverers of the principle of the conservation of energy, the formulation of which was arguably the most important single development in physics during the ... 2015, Kenneth L. Caneva, Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy, Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

Translations (8)

el διατήρηση της ενέργειας (conservation of energy) · de Energieerhaltung (conservation of energy) · fi energian säilyminen (conservation of energy) · hi ऊर्जा संरक्षण (conservation of energy) · ar حِفْظ الطَّاقَة (conservation of energy) · ro conservarea energiei (conservation of energy) · da energibevarelse (conservation of energy) · fi energian häviämättömyys (conservation of energy)