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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The sum of kinetic, potential, chemical, electrical, nuclear, and other energy associated with the atoms and molecules of a system. An increase in internal energy results in a rise in temperature or a change in phase.
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- noun physics a
property , characteristic of thestate of athermodynamic system , thechange of which isequal to theheat absorbed minus thework done by the system
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