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Meaning of "heat death" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HEAT DEATH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEAT DEATH

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Heat death is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HEAT DEATH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Heat death

Heat death may mean: ▪ Heat death of the universe, a proposed cosmological event ▪ Heat death paradox, a philosophical examination of the cosmological event ▪ The Heat Death of the Universe, album by punk band Off Minor ▪ Hyperthermia, injury up to and including death, from excessive heat ▪ Thermal shock, the destruction of equipment by overheating ▪ Death by burning, a form of capital punishment ▪ Drought, a climactic condition usually associated with heat and with death of crops...

Definition of heat death in the English dictionary

The definition of heat death in the dictionary is the condition of any closed system when its total entropy is a maximum and it has no available energy. If the universe is a closed system, it should eventually reach this state.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEAT DEATH

heat barrier
heat capacity
heat conductor
heat constant
heat content
heat efficiency
heat engine
heat exchanger
heat exhaustion
heat haze
heat lightning
heat loss
heat of combustion
heat of formation
heat of reaction
heat of solution
heat prostration
heat pump
heat rash
heat seeker

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEAT DEATH

a matter of life and death
accidental death
brain death
breath
death
flog to death
in at the death
kiss of death
life-and-death
life-or-death
like grim death
living death
maternal death
megadeath
programmed cell death
put to death
scared to death
sudden cardiac death
sudden death
to death
wall of death

Synonyms and antonyms of heat death in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heat death» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEAT DEATH

Find out the translation of heat death to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of heat death from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heat death» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

热死
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

muerte térmica
570 millions of speakers

English

heat death
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गर्मी से मौत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الموت الحراري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тепловой смерти
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

morte térmica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তাপ কন্টেন্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mort de la chaleur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kandungan haba
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wärmetod
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

熱死
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

열 사망
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Isi panas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chết nhiệt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெப்ப உள்ளடக்கம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उष्णता सामग्री
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Isı içeriği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

morte termica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

śmierć cieplna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

теплової смерті
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

moarte căldură
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θερμικό θάνατο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hitte dood
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

värme död
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

varme død
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heat death

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEAT DEATH»

The term «heat death» is normally little used and occupies the 108.983 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEAT DEATH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «heat death» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «heat death» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heat death

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEAT DEATH»

Discover the use of heat death in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heat death and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and the ...
This state has been called 'heat death.'"87 Accordingly, two opposite theories have been derived from the principle of the conservation of energy: the doctrine of eternal recurrence of the same and the doctrine of the end of all movement in ...
Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, 1999
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New Scientist
The mechanism of heat death continued Trends and Discoveries Better electron beams with superconductors ? Trends. to the periphery of the body. If this is insufficient for cooling, panting and sweating usually occur and excess heat is lost ...
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Synergetics: Chaos, Order, Self-organization
The Heat-Death Paradox The second principle of thermodynamics is valid for all macroprocesses without any exception. As a consequence, certain far-reaching extrapolations have been made, along with the philosophical speculations ...
Michael Bushev, 1994
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Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment
The extremely low thermal tolerance of these animals is important to the understanding of the mechanism of heat death. Some factors that have been suggested as contributing to heat death are: 1. Denaturation of proteins, thermal coagulation ...
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, 1997
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Eyewitness to Science
Heat Death The concept of entropy (the dissipation of available energy) was the brainchild of the German physicist Rudolf Clausius (182.2.-88) who, in 1850, formulated the second law of thermodynamics (that heat cannot of itself pass from a ...
John Carey, 1995
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Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and ...
Entropic Creation is the first book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, and the theory proposed by certain Christian scholars during the period 1860 to 1920 that the entropic creation ...
Professor Helge S Kragh, 2013
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Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics ...
Jeans explained the notion of the heat-death of the universe: "For, independently of all astronomical considerations, the ... a 'heat-death' in which the total energy of the universe is uniformly distributed, and all the substance of the universe is at  ...
Holly Henry, 2003
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THERMOKINETICS (Synthesis of Heat Engineering Theoretical ...
DENIAL OF THE THEORY OF “HEAT DEATH” OF THE UNIVERSE Among the problems of classic thermodynamics reflecting the scientific view of the world the conclusion that heat death of the Universe is inevitable takes the high-end position ...
V. A. Etkin, 2010
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Heat Death: A Romance
Temperature will drop to zero and the sky will become empty except for neutrinos, proton decay, and evaporating black holes. That is unless consciousness can reverse the death of heat. Will the universe die for our sins?
Abyssinian J. Kelly, 2008
10
Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein ...
... and all natural processes would cease; "the universe from that time forward would be condemned to a state of eternal rest." (Helmholtz, "Interaction of Natural Forces") Thus was made explicit the concept of the heat death of the universe, ...
Gerald James Holton, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEAT DEATH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heat death is used in the context of the following news items.
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Video: SAS heat death inquest: Corporal's widow hits out at MoD for …
An SAS reservist's widow has accused the Ministry of Defence of showing "no responsibility, accountability or humility" over her husband's ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Nine Things Cory Bernardi Might Be Dreaming About In This …
The inevitable heat death of the universe in which he rises up as the self-appointed authoritarian leader of this vast and barren land. In this ... «Junkee, Jul 15»
3
Sony phone chief vows to keep losing money forever and ever
Sony's phone boss has vowed to stay in the mobile business until the heat death of the universe – despite losses that have dragged the rest of ... «The Register, Jul 15»
4
The universe won't end with the Big Crunch but the Big Rip, scientist …
Other theories for the ultimate fate of the universe include the Big Freeze, the Big Bounce, heat death and a multiverse with no complete end. «The Independent, Jul 15»
5
The Rolling Stones announce touring museum exhibit
... or the heat death of the universe, whichever comes first. Advance tickets for the exhibition's residency at the Saatchi will go on sale next week ... «A.V. Club, Jul 15»
6
NBA Free Agency Shuffle
Timmy's playing for the Spurs, always and forever until the heat death of the universe. I can't even pretend to think anything different. P.S. As a ... «Today's Fastbreak, Jul 15»
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Karachi heat death toll hits 1145
KARACHI: The megacity of Karachi continued to bear brunts of heatwave which killed 15 more affectees in last 24 hours, bringing the death toll ... «PakistanHerald, Jun 15»
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Karachi heat death toll passes 1100 as 26 more die
KARACHI: The megacity of Karachi continued to reel under blistering heat which killed 26 more people in last 24 hours, bringing the death toll ... «SAMAA TV, Jun 15»
9
Battleborn E3 Hands-on Impressions
It turns out that the universe of Battleborn is surprisingly grim and deals with the heat death of the universe itself as what remains of organic life ... «Capsule Computers, Jun 15»
10
Shelby County Health Department reports probable heat death
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Shelby County Health Department says a death that it believes was probably due to heat has been reported in ... «WDEF News 12, Jun 15»

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