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/məkˈænɪkəl ˈɛnərdʒi/ Listen

Mechanical energy

noun

Energy in a mechanical form.

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"Mechanical energy" Quotes from Famous Books

... the south side of the edifice extended the enormous power plant. It supplied the Machinery Hall with a total steam power of about 3,000 horses generated by twelve engines. The entire plant, comprising over sixty steam-engines, and operating 127 dynamos, represented a most stupendous display of mechanical energy hitherto unequaled. Its total capacity ...

— By Water to the Columbian Exposition • Johanna S. Wisthaler

... been regarded by many as the greatest scientific triumph of modern times was worked out about the middle of the last century by James Prescott Joule and others, in determining that a certain amount of mechanical energy is exactly equivalent to a definite amount of heat. With this mechanical equivalent of heat all the various other forms of energy have also been correlated; until now we have the general law of the Conservation ...

— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price

Words linked to "Mechanical energy" : K.E., kinetic energy, free energy, potential energy, energy, P.E.