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KINETIC THEORY OF GASES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kinetic theory of gases mean? 

KINETIC THEORY OF GASES (noun)
  The noun KINETIC THEORY OF GASES has 1 sense:

1. (physics) a theory that gases consist of small particles in random motionplay

  Familiarity information: KINETIC THEORY OF GASES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


KINETIC THEORY OF GASES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(physics) a theory that gases consist of small particles in random motion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

kinetic theory; kinetic theory of gases

Hypernyms ("kinetic theory of gases" is a kind of...):

scientific theory (a theory that explains scientific observations)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kinetic theory of gases"):

kinetic theory of heat (a theory that the temperature of a body increases when kinetic energy increases)


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