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- noun physics, thermodynamics A measure of the useful
work obtainable from a constanttemperature , constantvolume thermodynamic system; more precisely, the difference between internal energy (of a system) and the product of itsabsolute temperature andentropy .
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For Hermann von Helmholtz German physicist
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