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Stirling(1)(dictionary)
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Stirling(encyclopedia)
Moss, Stirling(encyclopedia)
Stirling, William(medicine)
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Stirling, Sir James (Frazer)(encyclopedia)
Stirling-Glasgow Castle(tourism)

Stirling(1) (iou)



Stirling noun1. M19.
[The Revd Robert Stirling (1790-1878), Scottish minister and engineer.]
In full Stirling engine. Orig., an external-combustion air engine invented by Stirling. Now usu., a machine used to provide power or refrigeration, operating on a closed cycle in which a working fluid is cyclically compressed and expanded at different temperatures. M19.
Stirling cycle, the thermodynamic cycle on which an ideal Stirling engine would operate, in which a fluid undergoes isothermal expansion, cooling at constant volume by giving up heat to a regenerator, isothermal compression, and warming at constant volume by gaining heat from the regenerator. L19.