maxwell's demon
NOUN
15 LETTERS · STARTS WITH M
maxwell's demon is a valid 15-letter word worth 28 points in Scrabble and 33 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
M3A1X8W4E1L1L1'0S1D2E1M3O1N1
3 + 1 + 8 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 =28 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 56TRIPLE WORD → 84
MEANING
What does maxwell's demon mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
1
An imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics.