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MAXWELL'S DEMON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics
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Instance hypernyms:
imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)
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