heat death

English

Noun

heat death (countable and uncountable, plural heat deaths)

1. (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

• heat death of the universe

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

See also

• equilibrium