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lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.
Heat. In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference. [ 1] In colloquial use, heat sometimes refers to thermal energy itself. Thermal energy is the kinetic energy of vibrating and colliding atoms in a substance. An example of formal vs. informal usage may be obtained from the right-hand ...
The concept of force makes the everyday notion of pushing or pulling mathematically precise. Because the magnitude and direction of a force are both important, force is a vector quantity. The SI unit of force is the newton (N), and force is often represented by the symbol F . Force plays an important role in classical mechanics.
A hot, less-dense lower boundary layer sends plumes of hot material upwards, and cold material from the top moves downwards. Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy ( heat) between physical systems. Heat transfer is classified into various mechanisms ...
Chaleur Bay, also Chaleurs Bay, Bay of Chaleur[ 1][ 2] (in French: Baie des Chaleurs[ 3] ), is an arm of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence located between Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada. [ 3] The name of the bay is attributed to explorer Jacques Cartier (Baie des Chaleurs). It translates into English as "bay of warmth" or "bay of torrid weather".
In Argentina, force majeure (fuerza mayor and caso fortuito) is defined by the Civil Code of Argentina in Article 512, and regulated in Article 513. [14] According to these articles, force majeure is defined by the following characteristics: [15] an event that could not have been foreseen or if it could, an event that could not be resisted.
Joule heating (also known as resistive, resistance, or Ohmic heating) is the process by which the passage of an electric current through a conductor produces heat.. Joule's first law (also just Joule's law), also known in countries of the former USSR as the Joule–Lenz law, [1] states that the power of heating generated by an electrical conductor equals the product of its resistance and the ...
e. In physics, potential energy is the energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge, or other factors. [ 1][ 2] The term potential energy was introduced by the 19th-century Scottish engineer and physicist William Rankine, [ 3][ 4][ 5] although it has links to the ancient ...