MECHANICAL ENERGY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Energy in a mechanical form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("mechanical energy" is a kind of...):

energy; free energy ((physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mechanical energy"):

K.E.; kinetic energy (the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its motion)

P.E.; potential energy (the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its position; stored energy)

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