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multicaloric

multicaloric adjective: showing reversible temperature change as a result of a change in at least two distinct applied fields. For example, a material both magnetocaloric and electrocaloric.

Adjective

multicaloric (not comparable)

  1. Showing reversible temperature change as a result of a change in at least two distinct applied fields. For example, a material both magnetocaloric and electrocaloric.
    • The resulting equations for electrically and magnetically induced multicaloric effects are incorrect and cannot be used for measurement interpretation..2016, Ivan A. Starkov, Alexander S. Starkov, “Rebuttal of "The multicaloric effect in multiferroic materials"”, in arXiv

Origin of multicaloric

From multi- + caloric.

Questions about multicaloric

What does multicaloric mean?
Multicaloric means showing reversible temperature change as a result of a change in at least two distinct applied fields. For example, a material both magnetocaloric and electrocaloric.
What part of speech is multicaloric?
Multicaloric is an adjective.

Words near multicaloric in the dictionary

  1. multicables
  2. multicache
  3. multicaches
  4. multicaliber
  5. multicalibre
  6. multicaloric
  7. multicam
  8. multicamera
  9. multicameral
  10. multicameralism
  11. multicamerate

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