Stir|ling cycle

Stir|ling cycle
Stir|ling cycle «STUR lihng»,
Thermodynamics. a modified form of the Carnot cycle in which all the heat is added and rejected at the highest and lowest temperatures reached.
[< Robert Stirling, a Scottish engineer of the 1800's, who first proposed it]

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