Monday, November 26, 2007

Today's Words: tempestuous, thermodynamics

tempestuous
thermodynamics

tempestuous: \těm-pěs'chōō-əs\; characterized by violent emotions or behavior; tumultuous; stormy.

thermodynamics: \thûr'mō-dī-nām'ĭks\; the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.

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