Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun maxwell-boltzmann_distribution_law
1 sense of maxwell-boltzmann distribution law
Sense 1
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law, Boltzmann distribution law -- ((physics) a law expressing the distribution of energy among the molecules of a gas in thermal equilibrium)
=> distribution law -- ((chemistry) the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value according to a statistical distribution)