MECHANICAL ENERGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mechanical energy mean? 

• MECHANICAL ENERGY (noun)
  The noun MECHANICAL ENERGY has 1 sense:

1. energy in a mechanical form

  Familiarity information: MECHANICAL ENERGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MECHANICAL ENERGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Energy in a mechanical form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("mechanical energy" is a kind of...):

energy; free energy ((physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mechanical energy"):

K.E.; kinetic energy (the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its motion)

P.E.; potential energy (the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its position; stored energy)

 Context examples 

A connective tissue cell with the ability to convert chemical energy into mechanical energy via a contractile apparatus.

(Muscle Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

It could be equipped with LEDs or a type of nanogenerator that harnesses mechanical energy from the fluid flow to produce light and heat, which would reduce the overall cost.

(Novel Technology Uses Bacteria for Cleaning Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Muscle proteins are also responsible for the conversion of chemical energy into mechanical energy.

(Muscle Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Implantable devices which convert biological energy (chemical energy of the metabolism of continuously regenerating body fluids or mechanical energy of periodic movements) to electrical energy.

(Bioelectric Energy Sources, NCI Thesaurus)