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enthalpy

/ˈɛn.θəl.piː/

enthalpy noun: a measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.

Noun

enthalpy (countable and uncountable, plural enthalpies)

  1. (physical) A measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.
    • H=U+pV, where H is enthalpy, U is internal energy, p is pressure, and V is volume.

enthalpy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Tagalog and Indonesian

enthalpy in Hindi

a measure of the heat content
एंथैल्पी enthailpī, पूर्ण ऊष्मा pūrṇ ūṣmā

enthalpy in Tamil

வெப்ப அடக்கம், அடக்கவெப்பம், மொத்த வெப்பம், வெப்பக் கொள்ளளவு, வெப்ப உள்ளடக்கம், வெப்ப உள்ளுறை

enthalpy in Tagalog

a measure of the heat content
sanginit

enthalpy in Indonesian

a measure of the heat content
entalpi
More languagesFewer languages
enthalpy in Persian
آنتالپی ântâlpi
enthalpy in Thai
เอนทาลปี een-tao-bpii, เอนทัลปี een-tao-bpii
enthalpy in Vietnamese
entanpi

Forms of enthalpy

pluralenthalpies

Origin of enthalpy

From Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-, “in”) + θάλπω (thálpō, “to warm”). Coined by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, but first used in print by J. P. Dalton in 1909 in a paper titled "Researches on the Joule-Kelvin-effect, especially at low temperatures".

Words formed from enthalpy

Questions about enthalpy

What does enthalpy mean?
Enthalpy means a measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.
What is enthalpy in Hindi?
Enthalpy in Hindi is एंथैल्पी (enthailpī), पूर्ण ऊष्मा (pūrṇ ūṣmā). See Enthalpy meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is enthalpy?
Enthalpy is a noun.
How do you pronounce enthalpy?
Enthalpy is pronounced /ˈɛn.θəl.piː/.
What is the plural of enthalpy?
The plural of enthalpy is enthalpies.

Words near enthalpy in the dictionary

  1. enthalpies of vaporization
  2. enthalpimetric
  3. enthalpimetry
  4. enthalpogram
  5. enthalpograms
  6. enthalpy
  7. enthalpy of vaporization
  8. entheal
  9. enthean
  10. entheasm
  11. entheastic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enthalpy (page history and authors); enthalpy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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