transformity

Noun

1. The ratio of emergy to available energy.
   • Transformity increases with the increase in temperature between cold and hot reservoirs. - 2001, Emerging Technologies in Airconditioning and Refrigeration, page 46:
   • 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...
   • 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...