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carnot's cycle
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carnot's cycle, [After N. L. S. Carnot , French physicist.].
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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