Noun
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the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States
created in 1977
- department of energy - energy department -
any source of usable power
"the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy"
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a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
"jogging works off my excess energy"
"he seemed full of vim and vigor"
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an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
"his writing conveys great energy"
"a remarkable muscularity of style"
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enterprising or ambitious drive
"Europeans often laugh at American energy"
- get up and go -
forceful exertion
"he plays tennis with great energy"
"he's full of zip"
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(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work
the units of energy are joules or ergs
"energy can take a wide variety of forms"
- free energy