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

1 sense of second law of thermodynamics

Sense 1
second law of thermodynamics -- (a law stating that mechanical work can be derived from a body only when that body interacts with another at a lower temperature; any spontaneous process results in an increase of entropy)
       => law of thermodynamics -- ((physics) a law governing the relations between states of energy in a closed system)