Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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imaginary creature | Yes | No | No | No |
Maxwell's demon | Yes | No | No | No |
imaginary creature (noun) | Maxwell's demon (noun) |
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a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction | 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 |