SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A law stating that mechanical work can be derived from a body only when that body interacts with another at a lower temperature; any spontaneous process results in an increase of entropy

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Hypernyms ("second law of thermodynamics" is a kind of...):

law of thermodynamics ((physics) a law governing the relations between states of energy in a closed system)

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