Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun maxwell's_demon

1 sense of maxwell's demon

Sense 1
Maxwell's demon -- (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)
       INSTANCE OF=> imaginary being, imaginary creature -- (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)