Definitions for joules

joules joule

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

Joules is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in joules (ejlosu).

Definitions for joules

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 joules

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

Examples for joules

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for joules
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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