English
Noun
heat death (countable and uncountable, plural heat deaths)
- (physics) The state of a thermodynamic system having reached a maximum entropy; temperature is uniform throughout, and no energy is available to do work.
Derived terms
Translations
state of a thermodynamic system
- Bulgarian: топлинна смърт f (toplinna smǎrt)
- Catalan: mort tèrmica f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 熱寂 / 热寂 (zh) (rèjì)
- Dutch: hittedood m
- Finnish: lämpökuolema
- German: Wärmetod m
- Irish: teasbhás m
- Japanese: 熱的死 (ja) (ねってきし, nettekishi)
- Korean: 열죽음 (yeoljugeum), 열사 (ko) (yeolsa)
- Polish: śmierć cieplna f
- Swedish: värmedöden c
- Russian: теплова́я смерть f (teplovája smertʹ)
- Vietnamese: cái chết nóng
- Welsh: gwastadrwydd gwres m
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