heat engine
a mechanical device designed to transform part of the heat entering it into work.
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For instance, if you have this general statement that perpetual motion machines are impossible, you can combine it with other statements about other tasks being possible or not and work out that a heat engine is possible.
How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility | Amanda Gefter | April 29, 2021 | Quanta MagazineThe research might one day lead to improved efficiency of microscopic heat engines and motors.
Meet Maxwell’s gambling demon—smart enough to quit while it’s ahead | Jennifer Ouellette | March 4, 2021 | Ars TechnicaThe efficiency of any form of heat engine is determined by the power obtained from a certain fuel consumption.
Aviation Engines | Victor Wilfred PagYou have to have a fall of temperature to run any kind of heat engine.
Major Prophets of To-Day | Edwin E. SlossonBut during the centuries of experiments with a "heat-engine," the political world had greatly changed.
The Story of Mankind | Hendrik van Loon
Considered as a heat engine, the gas engine is now twice as efficient as the very best modern steam engine.
Thus it appears that we have been able to show by very definite experimental evidence that the radiometer is a heat engine.
Scientific Culture, and Other Essays | Josiah Parsons Cooke
British Dictionary definitions for heat engine
an engine that converts heat energy into mechanical energy
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