energy
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
energy/ˈenəʤi/
▶noun (pl. energies)
- 1 the strength and vitality required for sustained activity.
■ (energies) a person's physical and mental powers as applied to a particular activity.
- 2 power derived from physical or chemical resources to provide light and heat or to work machines.
- 3 Physics the property of matter and radiation which is manifest as a capacity to perform work.
– origin C16: from Fr. énergie, or via late L. from Gk energeia, from en- ‘in, within’ + ergon ‘work’.
'energy' also found in these Oxford entries:
acoustic
- active transport
- acupoint
- acupressure
- acupuncture
- adenosine triphosphate
- AEA
- allergy
- alternative energy
- amp
- anabolism
- anergia
- annihilate
- asthenia
- atom bomb
- atomic
- basal metabolic rate
- battery
- binding energy
- bioconversion
- bioenergetics
- black body
- bohrium
- bolometer
- breeder
- burn
- calorie
- calorific
- calorific value
- carbohydrate
- catabolism
- cathexis
- cell
- charge
- chemosynthesis
- chlorophyll
- consume
- creatine
- crunk
- degenerate
- degrade
- devil
- dielectric constant
- diffusivity
- dissipate
- dubnium
- dynamic
- dynamo
- E
- ebullient
