energies
Syllables: en·er·giesUK/ˈɛnəd͡ʒiz//ˈɛnɚd͡ʒiz/
energies is the plural of energy.
Meaning of energy
Noun
energy (countable and uncountable, plural energies)
- The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
- A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull...2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
- The capacity to do work.
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC
- A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.
- SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h)
CGS: erg (erg)
Customary: foot-pound-force, calorie, kilocalorie (i.e. dietary calories), BTU, liter-atmosphere, ton of TNTUnits
- SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h)
- An intangible, modifiable force (usually characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit.
- Reiki, much like prayer, is a personal exercise that can easily convert negative energy into positive energy.2004, Phylameana L. Desy, The Everything Reiki Book, Body, Mind & Spirit, p.130
- The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.
- The three Persons of the Holy Trinity have the same opinion, make the same decision, and put forth the same energy and action.2003, Carl S. Tyneh, Orthodox Christianity: Overview and Bibliography, page 21
- A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.
- Synonyms:
- action points
Phrases with energies
- bio energies
- bond energies
- gray energies
- grey energies
- mass energies
- rest energies
- wall energies
- Fermi energies
- green energies
- radio energies
- sound energies
- tidal energies
63 more phrasesFewer phrases
- impact energies
- muzzle energies
- Planck energies
- strain energies
- vacuum energies
- Wigner energies
- Zeeman energies
- binding energies
- Coulomb energies
- elastic energies
- Hawking energies
- kinetic energies
- lattice energies
- pairing energies
- primary energies
- radiant energies
- surface energies
- thermal energies
- acoustic energies
- chemical energies
- electric energies
- internal energies
- luminous energies
- magnetic energies
- particle energies
- resource energies
- specific energies
- Willmore energies
- available energies
- Dirichlet energies
- effective energies
- potential energies
- renewable energies
- resonance energies
- secondary energies
- spin-spin energies
- activation energies
- anisotropy energies
- excitation energies
- ionization energies
- mechanical energies
- rotational energies
- separation energies
- turbulence energies
- zero-point energies
- alternative energies
- barycentric energies
- correlation energies
- deformation energies
- interfacial energies
- sublimation energies
- unavailable energies
- vibrational energies
- deactivation energies
- dissociation energies
- eddy kinetic energies
- electrostatic energies
- recombination energies
- translational energies
- disintegration energies
- electromagnetic energies
- nuclear binding energies
- bond dissociation energies
Questions about energies
- What is energies the plural of?
- Energies is the plural of energy.
- How do you pronounce energies?
- Energies is pronounced /ˈɛnɚd͡ʒiz/ (US).
Words near energies in the dictionary
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