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thermal energy meaning

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WThermal energy
  • In thermodynamics, thermal energy refers to the internal energy present in a system by virtue of its temperature.
  • Microscopically, the thermal energy may include both the kinetic energy and potential energy of a system's constituent particles, which may be atoms, molecules, electrons, or particles.
  • Macroscopically, the thermal energy of a system at a given temperature is proportional to its heat capacity.
thermal energy
thermal energy
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Nouns
      • Countable nouns

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    Meaning of thermal energy for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this idiom "thermal energy" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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