How to Use thermodynamic in a Sentence

thermodynamic

adjective
  • This thermodynamic skittishness is passed on to the air above.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • Hard to say, because this curler not only bends your lashes but also bends the thermodynamic arrow of time.
    — Fiona Landers, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The law is a bedrock of physics, but has long failed to describe systems that are out of thermodynamic equilibrium.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Part of the problem is that many people understand weight loss to be a thermodynamic issue.
    — Nick Heil, Outside Online, 26 Mar. 2020
  • His final words to the thermodynamic duo minutes before liftoff?
    — Jeremy Henderson, AL.com, 4 Jan. 2018
  • The coldness of deep space is a thermodynamic resource, and largely untapped.
    — Sid Assawaworrarit, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2023
  • This method emphasizes thermodynamic changes, such as warmer air holding more water vapor.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • Basalt stones are used for their thermodynamic ability to maintain heat and transfer energy.
    — ELLE, 13 June 2023
  • Whitelam’s new strategy would give a thermodynamic computer a set of images.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That reminds one of the thermodynamic second law, that entropy always increases.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Give yourself every thermodynamic advantage by staying close to the heater, and don’t let furnishings get between you and its output.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The thermodynamic cost of (temporarily) foiling the second law is lowered.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Are the upper and lower mantle chemically distinct, and if so, how do the separate thermodynamic cycles work?
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 19 Feb. 2019
  • And that means almost all of them run into a big thermodynamic challenge, because carbon dioxide is an extremely stable molecule.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2018
  • One way to measure the amount of information is through entropy, a thermodynamic concept that is loosely related to the amount of disorder in a system.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
  • One final line of evidence is in the unexpected presence of certain gases in amounts that are out of thermodynamic equilibrium.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Every tenth of a degree of global warming represents extra thermodynamic fuel that intensifies heat waves and storms, adds to rising seas and hastens the melting of glaciers and ice sheets.
    — Keith Collins, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Traditional thermodynamic equations work well only for studying near-equilibrium systems like a gas that is slowly being heated or cooled.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2019
  • Consciousness may involve thermodynamic or quantum processes that lend the impression of living moment by moment.
    — Paul Davies, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2014
  • Does the flow of time really depend on this statistical thermodynamic process, and if so, how does that connection expand into our entire understanding of the arrow of time?
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
  • That ceramic helps keep the cell close to thermodynamic equilibrium, which underpins its durability.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 6 Jan. 2026
  • This lays the groundwork for image generation via thermodynamic computing.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Based on thermodynamic calculations, scientists believe that there are three distinct cloud layers in Jupiter's thick atmosphere.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Feb. 2020
  • There is always some thermodynamic or entropic force that is driving the overall biological dynamic.
    — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2013
  • For these applications, a thermodynamic—or probabilistic—computer starts out with its components in some semi-random state.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2025
  • Diffusion is driven by thermodynamic forces, whereas Poisson flow is driven by electrostatic forces.
    — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Many of them are also thermodynamic, becoming more flexible after coming into contact with warm water, for minor adjustments.
    — Sarah Bradley, Verywell Health, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The Big Freeze hypothesis states that the heat death of the universe will result when all of space approaches absolute zero, or a state of no thermodynamic free energy.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Lastly, Rillieux employed the thermodynamic principle that pressure and temperature follow each other—as one changes so does the other.
    — Ainissa Ramirez, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
  • For a digital computer, time is thin, unidimensional, and abstracted away from its thermodynamic arrow.
    — Anil Seth, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025

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