thermal equilibrium

1. 1.

   a state in which all parts of a system are at the same temperature

   Broaderequilibrium

Questions about thermal equilibrium

What does thermal equilibrium mean?

thermal equilibrium means "a state in which all parts of a system are at the same temperature".

Is thermal equilibrium a common word?

thermal equilibrium 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.