(n) Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879), Syn.James Clerk Maxwell, J. C. Maxwell
(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
n. A cgs unit of magnetic flux, abbreviated Mx; it is equal to the magnetic flux passing through one sqaure centimeter which is normal to a magnetic field of one gauss. Syn. -- Mx. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]
[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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