energy
Meaning
Noun
- The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
- The capacity to do work.
- 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.
- 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.
- A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.
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- acoustic energy
- activation energy
- alternate energy
- alternative energy
- anisotropy energy
- atomic energy
- available energy
- barycentric energy
- binding energy
- bioenergy
- bond energy
- chemical energy
- cohesive energy
- collateral energy
- correlation energy
- Coulomb energy
- dark energy
- deformation energy
- disintegration energy
- dissociation energy
- effective energy
- eigenenergy
- elastic energy
- electric energy
- electromagnetic energy
- electrostatic energy
- excitation energy
- Fermi energy
- free energy
- geothermal energy
- Gibbs free energy
- green 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
- nuclear energy
- pairing energy
- particle 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
- 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
- Zeeman energy
- zero-point energy
Origin
- From Middle French énergie, from Late Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια ("activity"), from ἐνεργός, from ἐν + ἔργον. The sense in physics was in his lectures on Natural Philosophy.
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