Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun carnot's_ideal_cycle
1 sense of carnot's ideal cycle
Sense 1
Carnot cycle, Carnot's ideal cycle -- (a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat)
=> cycle, oscillation -- (a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons")