energy
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French énergie, from Late Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia, “activity”), from ἐνεργός (energós, “active”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). The sense in physics was coined by Thomas Young in 1802 in his lectures on Natural Philosophy.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
energy (countable and uncountable, plural energies)
- The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
- 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
- A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. […] This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
- The capacity to do work.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
- (physics) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.
- Units:
- SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h)
- CGS: erg (erg)
- Customary: foot-pound-force, calorie, kilocalorie (i.e. dietary calories), BTU, liter-atmosphere, ton of TNT
- Units:
- An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit; a vibe, a feeling, an impression. (Compare aura.)
- 2004, Phylameana L. Desy, The Everything Reiki Book, Body, Mind & Spirit, p.130
- Reiki, much like prayer, is a personal exercise that can easily convert negative energy into positive energy.
- 2009, Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, John Wiley & Sons, p.15
- Negative feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive energy […]. In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative energy). Being open systems, people can exchange this energy with the environment and create positive energy for taking action based on a reorganisation of self as necessary to resolve the crisis and emerge at a higher level of consciousness; that is, until the next crisis.
- 2011, Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies, Hachette, p.118
- If you have been badly affected by negative energy a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself […]. Salt attracts negative energy and will draw it away from you.
- 2004, Phylameana L. Desy, The Everything Reiki Book, Body, Mind & Spirit, p.130
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, theology, often in the plural) The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.
- 2003, Carl S. Tyneh, Orthodox Christianity: Overview and Bibliography, page 21:
- The three Persons of the Holy Trinity have the same opinion, make the same decision, and put forth the same energy and action.
- 2017, Stoyan Tanev, Energy in Orthodox Theology and Physics: From Controversy to Encounter, quoting and translating the conclusions of the Fifth Council of Constantinople (1351), page 2:
- We hold, further, that there are two energies in our Lord Jesus Christ. For He possesses on the one hand, as God and being of like essence with the Father, the divine energy, and, likewise, since He became man and of like essence to us, the energy proper to human nature. […] Energy is the efficient and essential activity of nature; the capacity for energy is the nature from which proceeds energy; the product of energy is that which is effected by energy; and the agent of energy is the person or subsistence which uses the energy.
- 2019, Paul Ladouceur, Modern Orthodox Theology: Behold, I Make All Things New, page 368–369:
- The doctrine of the divine energies states that the divine essence, God-in-himself, is unknowable to any creature, whereas God makes himself known in creation by his divine energies, which are inseparable from the divine essence yet distinct from it. Humans know and experience God through his energies. […] Energies are indeed God, but God is more than his energies.
- 2003, Carl S. Tyneh, Orthodox Christianity: Overview and Bibliography, page 21:
- (role-playing games, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.
- Synonym: action points
SynonymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
- acoustic energy
- activation energy
- alternate energy
- alternative energy
- anisotropy energy
- atomic energy
- available energy
- barycentric energy
- big dick energy
- big dyke energy
- binding energy
- bio energy
- bioenergy
- bond dissociation energy
- bond energy
- chemical energy
- cohesive energy
- collateral energy
- correlation energy
- Coulomb energy
- creative energy
- dark energy
- deactivation energy
- deformation energy
- Dirichlet energy
- disintegration energy
- dissociation energy
- eddy kinetic energy
- effective energy
- eigenenergy
- elastic energy
- electric energy
- electrical energy
- electromagnetic energy
- electrostatic energy
- excitation energy
- extreme energy
- Fermi energy
- free energy
- geothermal energy
- Gibbs free energy
- green energy
- Hawking energy
- Helmholtz free energy
- impact energy
- interfacial energy
- internal energy
- ionization energy
- kinetic energy
- lattice energy
- luminous energy
- magnetic energy
- mass energy
- mechanical energy
- muzzle energy
- new relationship energy
- nuclear binding energy
- nuclear energy
- pairing energy
- particle energy
- phantom energy
- Planck energy
- potential energy
- primary energy
- radiant energy
- radio energy
- recombination energy
- renewable energy
- resonance energy
- resource energy
- rest energy
- rotational energy
- secondary energy
- selfenergy
- separation energy
- small dick energy
- solar energy
- sound energy
- specific energy
- spin-spin energy
- strain energy
- sublimation energy
- surface energy
- thermal energy
- tidal energy
- transition energy
- translational energy
- turbulence energy
- unavailable energy
- vacuum energy
- vibrational energy
- wall energy
- Wigner energy
- Willmore energy
- wind energy
- Zeeman energy
- zero-point energy
- zonal kinetic energy
Derived termsEdit
- bioenergy
- bundle of energy
- conservation of energy
- eigenenergy
- energy bar
- energy bubble
- energy carrier
- energy crisis
- energy drink
- energy expenditure
- energy field
- energy gel
- energy level
- energy medicine
- energy meter
- energy mint
- energy mix
- energy obesity
- energy park
- energy poverty
- energy shot
- energy source
- energy transfer
- energy vampire
- energy weapon
- energyless
- energymeter
- energyware
- high-energy
- isoenergy
- low-energy
- mass-energy
- new energy vehicle
- nonenergy
- quasi-energy
- quasienergy
- self-energy
- selfenergy
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Cebuano: enerdyi
TranslationsEdit
impetus behind activity
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capacity to do work
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physics
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ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- energy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- energy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911