Carnot cycle

(General Engineering) an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state

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Carnot cycle - a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat

Carnot's ideal cycle

oscillation, cycle - a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons"

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