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maxwell's demon 
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(TTS Sound)Overview of noun maxwell's_demon
The noun maxwell's demon has 1 sense
- Maxwell's demon -- (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)