maxwell : Idioms & Phrases
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j. c. maxwell
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noun Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)
Maxwell; J. C. Maxwell.
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james clerk maxwell
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noun Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)
Maxwell; J. C. Maxwell.
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maxwell anderson
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noun United States dramatist (1888-1959)
Anderson.
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maxwell's demon
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noun an imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics
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maxwell's equations
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noun four differential equations that summarize classical properties of electromagnetic fields
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maxwell-boltzmann distribution law
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noun (physics) a law expressing the distribution of energy among the molecules of a gas in thermal equilibrium
Boltzmann distribution law.
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william maxwell aitken
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noun British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
Beaverbrook; 1st Baron Beaverbrook.
