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transformity en · NOUN

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1. (countable, uncountable) The ratio of emergy to available energy.
   • Boggess (1994), studying the circulation of phosphorus in a Florida watershed, showed how the transformity zone of money circulation and market prices overlapped only the higher transformities of the circulation of phosphorus. 2004, Christina Howells, French Women Philosophers: A Contemporary Reader:
   • Transformity increases with the increase in temperature between cold and hot reservoirs. 2001, Emerging Technologies in Airconditioning and Refrigeration, page 46:
   • When an ecological network is expressed as a series of energy flows and transformation steps where the transformation steps are represented as Lindeman efficiencies, the resulting transformities represent trophic convergence and a measure of the amount of solar energy required to produce each level in the hierarchy. 2016, Sven E. Jørgensen, Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health, page 100:

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