transformity

Definitions

The ratio of emergy to available energy.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Transformity increases with the increase⟳ in temperature between cold and hot reservoirs.”

“Boggess (1994), studying the circulation of phosphorus in a Florida watershed, showed how the transformity zone of money circulation and market prices overlapped only the higher transformities of the circulation of phosphorus.”

“When an ecological network is expressed as a series of energy flows and transformation steps where the transformation steps are represented as Lindeman efficiencies, the resulting transformities represent⟳ trophic convergence and a measure⟳ of the amount of solar energy required to produce⟳ each level in the hierarchy.”

CEFR level