Transformity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Transformity is a noun meaning (ecology, thermodynamics) The ratio of emergy to available energy.
Meaning
(ecology, thermodynamics) The ratio of emergy to available energy.
Example Sentences
Transformity increases with the increase in temperature between cold and hot reservoirs.
Boggess (1994), studying the circulation of phosphorus in a Florida watershed, showed how the transformity zone of money circulation and market prices overlapped only the higher transformities of the circulation of phosphorus.
When an ecological network is expressed as a series of energy flows and transformation steps where the transformation steps are represented as Lindeman efficiencies, the resulting transformities represent trophic convergence and a measure of the amount of solar energy required to produce each level in the hierarchy.
Word Forms
- transformities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ectropy, energetics, entropy, thermofractal, exergy, entransy.
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