carnot's ideal cycle

1. 1.

   a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat

   SynonymsCarnot cycle

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Questions about carnot's ideal cycle

What does carnot's ideal cycle mean?

carnot's ideal cycle means "a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat".

What is another word for carnot's ideal cycle?

Close synonyms include Carnot cycle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carnot's ideal cycle a common word?

carnot's ideal cycle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.