hypoequilibrium
nounEtymology From hypo- + equilibrium.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A state that is in some way less than an equilibrium
- They are derived via the concepts of hypoequilibrium state and nonequilibrium intensive properties, which describe the nonmutual equilibrium status between subspaces of the thermodynamic state space of a single system and/or of the state space of the two interacting systems.2016, Guanchen Li, Michael R. von Spakovsky, “Steepest-entropy-ascent quantum thermodynamic modeling of the far-from-equilibrium interactions between nonequilibrium systems of indistinguishable particle ensembles”, in arXiv: