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Brownian ratchets

Brownian ratchets is the plural of Brownian ratchet.

Meaning of Brownian ratchet

Noun

Brownian ratchet (plural Brownian ratchets)

  1. An apparent perpetual motion machine, the subject of a thought experiment, that would consist of a tiny paddle wheel and a ratchet, and might seem to be able to extract useful work from random fluctuations (heat) in a system at thermal equilibrium, in violation of the second law of thermodynamics.

Questions about Brownian ratchets

What is Brownian ratchets the plural of?
Brownian ratchets is the plural of Brownian ratchet.

Words near Brownian ratchets in the dictionary

  1. Brownian motors
  2. Brownian movement
  3. Brownian movements
  4. Brownian noise
  5. Brownian ratchet
  6. Brownian ratchets
  7. brownie
  8. brownie point
  9. brownie points
  10. brownier
  11. brownies

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