This page gathers the 3,177 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Physics”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 28 of 32: from “strongly symmetric matter” to “suppress”.
- strongly symmetric matter noun A predicted very high energy state of matter, present in the very early universe for perhaps 10⁻³⁶ seconds after the Big Bang, when strong…
- strontium-90 noun The radioactive isotope of strontium, 9038Sr, that is present in the fallout from nuclear explosions and, being chemically similar to…
- structured illumination noun The projection of a grid of lines onto a target in order to obtain information about its structure, typically by analysing the Fourier…
- stub noun A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- sub-Eddington adj Pertaining to that which is below the Eddington luminosity, which does not break the Eddington limit.
- sub-qubit noun A quantity of information less than one qubit, or a physical system used to represent such a quantity.
- subatomic adj Relating to particles that are constituents of the atom, or are smaller than an atom; such as proton, neutron, electron, etc.
- subcondensate noun Any section of a condensate, associated with an occupied band, that has a distinct coherence length; they can interfere constructively or…
- subconstituent noun A component of an elementary particle.
- subcooled adj Describing a liquid whose temperature is less that its saturation temperature at a particular pressure.
- subcooling noun cooling a liquid to a temperature that is less that its saturation temperature at a particular pressure
- subcritical adj Having insufficient mass to sustain a chain reaction
- subevent noun A component of a complex event, such as a collision between large particles.
- subextensive adj Having a combined system entropy that is less than the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
- subfeed noun A part of an electricity or antenna feed.
- subgrid adj Describing any parameter measured on a scale smaller than the grid used to plot it
- subhadronic adj Describing particles smaller than a hadron; especially describing quarks, the constituents of hadrons
- subharmonic adj Having a frequency that is a fraction of a fundamental frequency
- sublevel noun A subshell
- sublimation energy noun The increase in internal energy of a unit mass of solid when it undergoes sublimation at constant temperature and pressure
- submicron adj Smaller than micron-scale
- subnatural adj Describing spectroscopic lines that are narrower than those produced naturally
- suborbital noun A portion of an orbital.
- subquantum adj Describing any of several approaches to describe physical phenomena by means of hidden variables or other alternatives to quantum physics
- subrelativistic adj Describing a velocity (and associated properties) that is considerably less than the speed of light such that relativistic effects may be…
- subshell noun Any of the atomic orbitals for which the values of the n and l quantum numbers are the same, such as the three 2p or five 3d atomic…
- subswitch noun A simpler switch that is a component of a more complex switch, used in telephone exchanges or data routing.
- subwavelength adj Having dimensions less than the wavelength of the light employed.
- suction noun A force which pushes matter from one space into another because the pressure inside the second space is lower than the pressure in the…
- suicide battery noun A battery whose purpose is, in addition to powering an electronic device, making the powered device permanently unusable once the energy is…
- suicide cable noun A simple electrical cord with prongs on both ends; plugging one end into a live outlet (for example a generator) and the other end into a…
- sulfur-32 noun The major stable isotope of sulfur, 3216S, having sixteen protons and sixteen neutrons; it amounts to 95% of the element in nature
- sulfur-33 noun A minor stable isotope of sulfur, 3316S, having sixteen protons and seventeen neutrons; it amounts to less than 1% of the element in nature
- sulfur-34 noun A minor stable isotope of sulfur, 3416S, having sixteen protons and eighteen neutrons; it amounts to about 4% of the element in nature
- sulfur-35 noun A radioactive isotope of sulfur, 3516S, having sixteen protons and nineteen neutrons, and a half-life of about 87 days; it is used as a…
- sulfur-36 noun A minor stable isotope of sulfur, 3616S, having sixteen protons and twenty neutrons; it amounts to only 0.01% of the element in nature
- summator noun A logic circuit or other electronic device whose output is the sum of two or more input signals or values.
- sup adj Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.
- sup squark noun A squark which is the hypothetical supersymmetric partner of an up quark.
- super weakly interacting massive particle noun a candidate type of dark matter which are weakly interacting massive particles that result from supersymmetry, being supersymmetric…
- super- prefix regarding supersymmetry
- superactivation noun The activation of a pair of quantum channels that each have zero capacity in order to achieve a nonzero capacity.
- superarrival noun The occurrence of a time interval of raised probability of a quantum wave packet being reflected at a barrier when that barrier is lowered…
- superatom noun A metamaterial, a cluster of atoms which acts like a single atom. It seems to exhibit some of the properties of elemental atoms.
- superatomic adj On a larger scale than the atomic.
- superbradyon noun a particle with positive mass and positive energy and a superluminal critical speed in vacuum, possibly an ultimate constituent of matter…
- supercavitation noun An extreme form of cavitation in which a single bubble of gas forms around an object moving through a liquid, significantly reducing drag.
- supercharge noun An instance of supercharging.
- supercharger noun A device that can rapidly recharge a battery cell/pack.
- superchiral adj (of a field) having chiral density much higher than circularly polarized light, particularly with respect to ultrasensitive detection
- supercollision noun The kind of high-energy collision that occurs in a supercollider.
- supercontinuum noun light having both high spatial coherence and broad spectral bandwidth; i.e. laser light that is not monochromatic
- supercool verb To cool a material below its transition temperature without that transition occurring.
- supercritical adj Above its critical temperature and critical pressure.
- supercritical fluid noun A substance at a temperature and pressure above its own thermodynamic critical point that can diffuse through solids like a gas and…
- superdeformed adj Very far from spherical, forming an ellipsoid with axes in ratios of approximately 2:1:1 (as opposed to the norm of approximately 1.3:1:1).
- superdeterminism noun A form of determinism that precludes the assumption, made by Bell's theorem, that an experimenter can make measurements that are…
- superdiffusion noun A form of diffusion in which the random walk of the molecules contains occasional very long steps (Lévy flights)
- superembedding noun A supersymmetric extension of classical surface theory to the description of superbrane dynamics by means of embedding worldvolume…
- superexchange noun An interaction of the electrons of two molecular entities mediated by one or more molecules or ions.
- superexcited adj Of or pertaining to an excitation level with an extremely high level of excess energy, usually equivalent to at least 10 eV per molecule…
- superextensive adj Having a combined system entropy that exceeds the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
- superfluid noun A substance, such as liquid helium, that exhibits superfluidity.
- superfluidity noun The frictionless flow that is characteristic of a fluid with zero viscosity, especially liquid helium at temperatures near absolute zero.
- superglass noun A phase of matter in which superfluidity and an amorphous (glassy) structure are present at the same time
- supergraph noun A Feynman diagram that calculates scattering amplitudes in a supersymmetric theory using the advantages of the superspace formalism.
- supergroup noun A generalization of groups, used in the study of supersymmetry.
- superheated adj heated above the critical point
- superheterodyne adj Pertaining to a technique used in radio and television receivers to tune to a particular frequency, or to receivers using such a technique.
- superhyperfine adj Describing the further splitting of the lines in a hyperfine structure due to additional couplings between quantum states
- superinformation adj Medium capable of containing information that specifies particular physical states in which copying is impossible, usually in the realm of…
- superinjection noun A condition in which the injected carrier concentration in a heterojunction exceeds the carrier concentration of the emitter
- superinsulating adj Displaying infinite resistivity at finite temperatures; in a state of superinsulation.
- superinsulation noun A quantum state of zero electrical conductivity (or infinite resistance) - the opposite of superconductivity.
- superinsulator noun Any material that exhibits superinsulation
- superinvariant adj invariant under supersymmetry
- superkick noun An ultrarelativistic interaction between two spinning black holes.
- superlens noun Any of several lenses, often built using material with negative refractive index, that can resolve images having dimensions less than that…
- superlocalization noun localization (e.g. of a nanoparticle) to a precision better than can be achieved using normal optical means
- supermolecule noun A transitory, quantum-mechanical entity formed when two molecules react
- supermultiplet noun A set of quantum mechanical states, each of which has the same value for a certain quantum number (or numbers) but different values for…
- supernode noun In nodal analysis: a combination of two nodes which are connected by a voltage source, allowing for the voltage of the nodes to be solved…
- superphoton noun A photonic Bose-Einstein condensate, comprised of thousands of photons sufficiently concentrated and cooled in an optical well.
- superposition in time noun A computation accounting for the flowrate history in an analytical model that is generated to match with pressure-transient test data.
- superposition principle noun The principle stating that for a linear system, the net response is the sum of the response associated with each individual input.
- superprotonic adj Exhibiting very high proton conductivity; especially describing a phase transition in certain solid-state compounds.
- superquintessence noun Phantom energy, cosmic exotic matter, and a likely explanation for dark energy itself, which can violate all energy conditions; a substance…
- superradiance noun The cooperative enhancement of spontaneous emission by constructive interatomic interference, producing an incoherent form of radiation.
- superregenerative adj Being a form of regenerative radio receiver that uses a second lower-frequency oscillation to provide single-device circuit gains
- supersaturated adj More concentrated than is normally possible.
- supersaturation noun The condition of a solution being more highly concentrated than is normally possible.
- superselective adj Relating to superselection.
- supersolid noun A superfluid material that has a spatially ordered structure similar to a crystal.
- superspin noun The spin of a superconducting particle, wave etc.
- superstrate noun The sudden increase in the electrical conductivity of some metals as their temperature falls to near absolute zero.
- superstring noun a hypothetical object consisting of a very small one-dimensional string that vibrates in ten (or more) dimensions
- supersymmetry noun A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.
- supertwistor noun A supersymmetric extension of twistors, having n degrees of freedom (where n is the number of supersymmetries) in addition to those of a…
- superweak adj Describing a class of particles (superWIMPs) that interact with others very weakly.
- suppress verb To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.