(n) 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
[Mài kè sī wéi, ㄇㄞˋ ㄎㄜˋ ㄙ ㄨㄟˊ, 麦克斯韦 / 麥克斯韋] Maxwell (name); James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves #85,183[Add to Longdo]
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