Gibbs
Common British surname
Gibbs is a surname, most notably associated with American physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, whose work in thermodynamics gave rise to terms like Gibbs free energy and Gibbs entropy.
In popular culture, the name evokes fictional characters like NCIS's Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
A Gibbs slap refers to a corrective smack to the back of the head, after that character's signature move.
Covert government investigator
- team leaderHead of a group
- sniperConcealed precision shooter
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
- boat buildingConstructing seaworthy vessels
basement · coffee · rules · Mark Harmon · silver fox · gut instinct · Shannon · Kelly
Quantified chaos in systems
- enthalpyThermodynamic total heat quantity
- equilibriumState of balance
- spontaneityActing without forethought
- phase transitionMatter shifting between states
Disco-era brother trio
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- family nameHereditary portion of identity
- lineageDescent from progenitors
special agent
Covert government investigator
- team leaderHead of a group
- sniperConcealed precision shooter
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
boat building · basement · coffee · rules · Mark Harmon · silver fox · gut instinct · Shannon · Kelly · Mexico
entropy
Quantified chaos in systems
- enthalpyThermodynamic total heat quantity
- equilibriumState of balance
- spontaneityActing without forethought
phase transition · isothermal · isobaric · Boltzmann · microstates
Bee Gees
Disco-era brother trio
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- family nameHereditary portion of identity
thermal equilibrium
Equal temperature throughout system
- fluctuationsIrregular rises and falls
- Pirates of the CaribbeanJack Sparrow, Davy Jones, Will Turner, Flying Dutchman, Kraken
- Field MarshalsMontgomery, Rommel, Kitchener, Wellington, Alexander
- physical chemistrythermodynamics, kinetics, chemical equilibrium, reaction rates, activation energy
- thermodynamicsentropy, enthalpy, heat transfer, free energy, heat capacity
- Knoxville AreaKnoxville, Powell, Lonsdale, Old City, Concord
- MathematiciansEuclid, Gauss, Euler, Archimedes, Pythagoras
Gibbsfirst name
Personal name, not surname
given name · forename · Christian name · personal name · birth name