multicaloric

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adjective

Showing reversible temperature change as a result of a change in at least two distinct applied fields. For example, a material both magnetocaloric and electrocaloric.

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Meanings

adjectivemulticaloric (not comparable)
  1. not comparablenatural sciencesShowing reversible temperature change as a result of a change in at least two distinct applied fields. For example, a material both magnetocaloric and electrocaloric.

    The resulting equations for electrically and magnetically induced multicaloric effects are incorrect and cannot be used for measurement interpretation..

    2016, Ivan A. Starkov, Alexander S. Starkov, “Rebuttal of "The multicaloric effect in multiferroic materials"”, in arXiv

Origin

From multi- + caloric.

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