Definitions for Joule

Joule joule

Spelling: [jool, joul]
IPA: /dʒul, dʒaʊl/

Joule is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in Joule (ejlou).

Definitions for Joule

noun

  1. the standard unit of work or energy in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the work done by a force of one newton when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force: equivalent to 10 7 ergs and one watt-second. Abbreviation: J, j.
  2. James Prescott, 1818–89, English physicist.

Origin of Joule

First recorded in 1885-90; named after J. P. Joule

Examples for Joule

This is the law known as the conservation of energy which has been built up by Helmholtz, Thomson, joule and others.

One watt is equivalent to one joule per second or 60 joules per minute.

Mr. joule's first investigations were in the field of magnetism.

It has been demonstrated by joule and others that Gravitation can be converted into heat, light, and electricity.

joule of Manchester was the first to verify Mayer's law quantitatively.

We know this from Playfair, who mentioned it at joule's death.

The meeting of Thomson and joule at Oxford in 1847 was fraught with important results to the theory of heat.

Others will be found in the collected papers of joule, Kelvin and Maxwell.

This is known as the mechanical equivalent of heat, or joule's equivalent.

M is here so chosen that Mdv is the heat expressed in units of work, so that μ does not involve joule's equivalent of heat.

Word Value for Joule
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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