Carnot's cycle

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Mon Jan 23 2006 at 13:25:11

Car`not's" cy"cle (?). [After N. L. S. Carnot, French physicist.] (Thermodynamics)

An ideal heat-engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations:
(1) Isothermal expansion to a desired point;
(2) adiabatic expansion to a desired point;
(3) isothermal compression to such a point that
(4) adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state.

 

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