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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Carnot's cycle

/(kär`nōz")/ · Car·not's· cy·cle · IPA
01 An ideal heat-engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations: (1) Isothermal expansion to a …
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    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.(Thermodynamics)