perpetual motion machine

English

Noun

perpetual motion machine (plural perpetual motion machines)

1. (physics, pseudoscience) A hypothetical, pseudoscientific device that exhibits perpetual motion, especially one that does useful work with no input of energy.

Derived terms

• perpetual motion machine of the first kind
• perpetual motion machine of the second kind

Translations

hypothetical device

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 永動機／永动机 (wing⁵ dung⁶ gei¹)

  Mandarin: 永動機／永动机 (zh) (yǒngdòngjī)

• Czech: perpetuum mobile (cs) n
• Danish: evighedsmaskine c
• Finnish: ikiliikkuja (fi)
• Georgian: მუდმივი ძრავა (mudmivi ʒrava)
• German: Perpetuum mobile (de) n
• Icelandic: eilífðarvél f
• Japanese: 永久機関 (ja) (eikyū kikan)
• Kazakh: мәңгі қозғалтқыш (mäñgı qozğaltqyş)
• Mongolian: мөнхийн хөдөлгүүр (mönxiin xödölgüür)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: evighetsmaskin

  Nynorsk: eviggangsmaskin

• Polish: perpetuum mobile (pl) n
• Romanian: perpetuum mobile (ro) n
• Swedish: evighetsmaskin (sv) c

Further reading

• perpetual motion machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia