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English noun: Maxwell's demon

1. Maxwell's demon (person) an imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics


Instance hypernymimaginary being, imaginary creature









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