transformity

English

Noun

transformity (countable and uncountable, plural transformities)

1. (ecology, thermodynamics) The ratio of emergy to available energy.
   • 2001, Emerging Technologies in Airconditioning and Refrigeration‎^[1], page 46:

     Transformity increases with the increase in temperature between cold and hot reservoirs.

   • 2004, Christina Howells, French Women Philosophers: A Contemporary Reader‎^[2]:

     Boggess (1994), studying the circulation of phosphorus in a Florida watershed, showed how the transformity zone of money circulation and market prices overlapped only the higher transformities of the circulation of phosphorus.

   • 2016, Sven E. Jørgensen, Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health‎^[3], page 100:

     When an ecological network is expressed as a series of energy flows and transformation steps where the transformation steps are represented as Lindeman efficiencies, the resulting transformities represent trophic convergence and a measure of the amount of solar energy required to produce each level in the hierarchy.

Further reading

• transformity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia