Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun carnot_cycle

1 sense of carnot 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")