Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

conservation of energy

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English

Syllables: con-ser-va-tion of en-er-gy
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a principle stating that energy may not be created or destroyed

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Robert Mayer is well known as one of the several codiscoverers of the principle of the conservation of energy, the formulation of which was arguably the most important single development in physics during the ..."
"Like the concept of conservation of mass, the idea of conservation of energy is also applicable to all chemical reactions."
"Temperatures decrease with altitude due to adiabatic cooling (a rising parcel of air expands, and must therefore cool due to conservation of energy)."
"This contribution reduces with increasing distance p from the emitting surface element dA, due to conservation of energy, as the wave energy distributed across the spherical wave front remains constant, while the radius increases during ..."
"The net result is the black hole loses mass (due to conservation of energy)."

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

law of conservation of energy first law of thermodynamics

Questions

What does conservation of energy mean?: a principle stating that energy may not be created or destroyed

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