Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:
Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence
On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:
- how the word is used
- frequency of use
- it is used more often in oral or written speech
- word translation options
- usage examples (several phrases with translation)
- etymology
What (who) is work slip - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
SLIP; The slip; The Slip; Slip (disambiguation); The Slip (disambiguation)
Slip coach
RAIL PASSENGER CAR DETACHED FROM TRAIN WHILE STILL MOVING AT SPEED
Slip carriage; Slip-coach; Slipcoach; Slip coaches
A slip coach, slip carriage or slip portion in Britain and Ireland, also known as a flying switch in North America, is one or more carriages designed to be uncoupled from the rear of a moving train. The detached portion continued under its own momentum following the main train until slowed by its own guard using the brakes, bringing the slip to a stop, usually at the next station.
slip carriage
RAIL PASSENGER CAR DETACHED FROM TRAIN WHILE STILL MOVING AT SPEED
Slip carriage; Slip-coach; Slipcoach; Slip coaches
(also slip coach)
¦ noun Brit. historical a railway carriage on an express which could be detached so as to come to rest at a station where the main part of the train did not stop.
Work (thermodynamics)
![Joule's apparatus for measuring the [[mechanical equivalent of heat]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joule's Apparatus (Harper's Scan).png?width=200 "Joule's apparatus for measuring the [[mechanical equivalent of heat]]")
ENERGY TRANSFER, OR ITS AMOUNT (& DIRECTION), IN A THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS DUE TO MACROSCOPIC FACTORS EXTERNAL TO A THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEM
Work (Thermodynamics); Thermodynamic work; PV work; Pressure-volume work; Pressure volume work; Thermodynamical work
In thermodynamics, work performed by a system is energy transferred by the system to its surroundings, by a mechanism through which the system can spontaneously exert macroscopic forces on its surroundings. In the surroundings, through suitable passive linkages, the work can lift a weight, for example.
