'Carnot's cycle' definitions:

Definition of 'Carnot's cycle'

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Carnot's cycle \Car`not's" cy"cle\ (k[aum]r`n[=o]z"). [After N. L. S. Carnot, French physicist.] (Thermodynamics) 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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