mesostate

From meso- + state. Sense 4 possibly purely in analogy with anastate and catastate.

[…] the liquid to the solid state via first-order phase transformations, which must be preceded by a breakdown of the structure of the mesostate—an intermediate state of the alum in its transition from the solution to the crystaline phase.

1974, Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry - Volume 48, page 896:

Many substances can be in a state between crystallized and liquid. This means that the molecules have more freedom of motion than in the solid state but not as much as in a liquid, a condition called mesostate.

1989, Cornel K. Pokorny, Curtis F. Gerald, Computer Graphics: The Principles Behind the Art and Science:

(physics) An intermediate physical state of matter between solid and liquid, in which the molecules have more freedom of movement than when locked in a crystal lattice, but less freedom of movement than when in the liquid state.

If the manipulation is slow enough, and the driving connects different mesostates, then jumps between states in the same mesostate satisfy the detailed balance condition.

2021, Luca Peliti, Simone Pigolotti, Stochastic Thermodynamics: An Introduction, page 42:

Even though we said the mesostates x are relatively stable, after a very long time they will also eventually thermalize (unless we additionally protect them).

2022, Philipp Strasberg, Quantum Stochastic Thermodynamics, page 51:

For systems with metastable conformations, a trajectory initiated in one mesostate spends a (potentially) long time sampling microstates in that mesostate before overcoming the energy barrier to sample the other mesostate, and due to the timescale separateion between the simulation timestep and reaction transitions, it becomes impractical to compute free energies via a brute-force approach.

2023, Miranda Louwerse, Efficient Control and Spontaneous Transitions, page 31:

(thermodynamics) A composite state of a physical system that is determined by the overall configuration of many microstates; e.g. the heat of a substance (mesostate), which is made up of the aggregate of motions of many molecules (microstate).


kinematic envelope

en-noun

kinematic envelope (plural kinematic envelopes)

Travers Morgan Railways recognized this fact in 1990 and have developed a computerized technique to derive the true kinematic enveleope for indivdual rolling stock using basic vehicle parameters.

1992, Institution of Civil Engineers, edited by R.A. Vickers, Cost-effective maintenance of railway track: proceedings of the conference Cost-effective maintenance of railway track organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers and held in London on 25-26 June 1992, →ISBN, Discussion on Papers 3– 5, page 84:

However, in one respect Eurostar did condition the kinematic enveleope of Le Shuttle. […] The smaller Eurostar trains needed a lower step to overcome the height and width differential between the doorway and the walkway. This lower step became a significant element in determining the kinematic enveleope for the Shuttle trains, because of the limited clearance which resulted from its introduction into tunnel design.

1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, edited by Charles Penny, Channel Tunnel transport system: proceedings of the conference organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers and held in London on 4-5 October 1994, published 1996, →ISBN, Discussion on session 3, page 85:

A publication known as “Design Guide BaSS 501” provided a methodology wherby the kinematic enveleope of a vehicle (the space required by a given vehicle, moving at speed) at a specific location could be manually calculated from a number of input parameters.

2006, Simon Iwnicki, Handbook of Railway Vehicle Dynamics, →ISBN, page 184:

(rail transport) The outline of the space occupied by a rail vehicle when in motion, including the effects of tilt, sway, track cant, etc.


sectant

(crystallography) One of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.


quadrifocal

(optics) Of or pertaining to lenses that have four different powers per eye.


sideroscope

An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a delicate assembly of magnetic needles.


clinorhombic

From clino- + rhombic: compare French clinorhombique.

(crystallography) Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.


two-phase

(electricity) Having two alternating currents whose phases differ by 90°.


diactinic

diactinic media

(physics) Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light.


tessular

en-adj

tessular (comparative more tessular, superlative most tessular)

more tessular (comparative)
most tessular (superlative)

From (assumed) New Latin tessula (diminutive of Latin tessera) + English -ar.


sciagraph

From Ancient Greek σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + -graph.


Vth

(physics) threshold voltage of a transistor.


superfluorescence

In this approach, a source of parametric superfluorescence (an OPG with optical gain of 10 10 to 10 12 ) provides the seed pulse (energy 10 to 100 nJ) for subsequent parametric amplification (with an OPG with optical gain of 10 3 to 10 5 ).

1999 November 19, Malcolm H. Dunn, Majid Ebrahimzadeh, “Parametric Generation of Tunable Light from Continuous-Wave to Femtosecond Pulses”, in Science, volume 286, number 5444, →DOI, pages 1513–1517:

(physics) fluorescence as a result of spontaneous correlation of excited atomic states


atompunk

In fact, there was a fair amount of stuff around in the 60s and 70s that can only be explained as cross-dimensional leakage from an Atompunk universe.

2001 October 31, Simon Bradshaw, “Re: Steampunk Recommendations?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <memo.20011031191447.43761C@sjbradshaw.compulink.co.uk>:

Perfect "atompunk" feel – reactors with nervous engineers and analog controls.

2002 June 10, Mike Simone, “Re: Land Battleships”, in rec.arts.sf.science, rec.games.design (Usenet), message-ID <152bbdf6.0206101038.72e312be@posting.google.com>:

For the Legion, we're looking at 20th century futures rather than 19th. Analogies with steampunk might be "dieselpunk", "atompunk", or "rocketpunk" – but any Legion of Super-Heroes worthy of the name seems to be as far from the "punk" aspect as it's possible to get.

2004 March 6, Michael S. Schiffer, “Re: Earth-2 Legion Synopsis”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh (Usenet), message-ID <Xns94A49BD7E514mss2mediaonenet@130.133.1.4>:

According to a mailing list from the Netherlands, Atompunk is devoted to the cultural period (mostly of the United States) of between 1945 to 1965. While the moniker hasn't become a part of our country's vernacular yet (though I'm sure some of you already started using it ages ago), it sounds just annoyingly catchy enough to warrant a New York Times trend piece in about eight years.

2012 April 8, Elaine Chow, “Space Age Fetishism Getting Silly New Moniker: Atompunk”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2016-08-28:

Atompunk covers the pre-digital period of 1945–1965, including mid-century Modernism, the Atomic Age and Space Age. Throw Roger Thornhill's suits in this basket, and everything ever worn on Mad Men. This takes us right up to the mid '60s, when the fictional worlds of yesterday abut the real worlds you grew up in.

2012, William J. Thompson, “Time Travel”, in Dress Like a Grownup!: A Complete Tutorial for the Average Guy, 2nd edition, volume 1, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, part 2 (Advanced Theory), page 55:

You keep imagining someone 20 years from now reading The Peripheral the way that we read Neuromancer today, perplexed at the now-unfathomable ubiquity of cassettes and modems. We laugh at the past or mine it for influence – think of steampunk, atompunk, dieselpunk, and the million other microgenres based on the incongruity of old societies and future tech – but someday, the future is going to do the same to us.

2014 October 27, Adi Robertson, “William Gibson’s ‘The Peripheral’: Looking Back at the Future: A Smart, Nuanced Twist on Time Travel”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2017-05-05:

Additionally, while [Sebastian] Faulks aspires to write as [Ian] Fleming, he takes care to increase the serving of action, in fact including some interesting bits of atompunk—a nuclear-powered ekranoplan, Vulcan bombers.

2015, Nader Elhefnawy, The Forgotten James Bond, [s.l.]: [s.n.]:

(science fiction) A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the society and technology of the Atomic Age (c. 1945–1969).


plagihedral

plagihedral (comparative more plagihedral, superlative most plagihedral)

more plagihedral (comparative)
most plagihedral (superlative)

(crystallography) Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as in levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.


radiowaste

en-noun

radiowaste (countable and uncountable, plural radiowastes)


heliac

A stellarator in which the magnetic axis (and plasma) follows a helical path to form a toroidal helix rather than a simple ring shape.


JWST

(NASA, space science, US) Initialism of James Webb Space Telescope.


deintercalated

(physical chemistry) removed from between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues; prepared by deintercalation


isospecific

(physics) between the same species of subatomic particle


renormalon

quantum chromodynamics
quantum chromodynamics

(physics) A poorly-understood and, so far, undefined singularity associated with quantum chromodynamics


superhyperfine

(physics) Describing the further splitting of the lines in a hyperfine structure due to additional couplings between quantum states


arginase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of arginine to form urea and ornithine

arginaasi

an enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of arginine


chargon

(physics) The holon, a quasiparticle produced as a result of electron spin-charge separation.


MPO

(biochemistry) Initialism of myeloperoxidase.


pantoscopic

(optics) Designed to focus on both near and distant objects at the same time, typically by means of a tilt in the lens


emarginated

en-adj

emarginated (comparative more emarginated, superlative most emarginated)

more emarginated (comparative)
most emarginated (superlative)

(crystallography) Having the edges truncated.


platinode

From platinum + -ode. They were formerly often made from platinum.


photoactinic

photoactinic (comparative more photoactinic, superlative most photoactinic)

more photoactinic (comparative)
most photoactinic (superlative)

(obsolete, physics, chemistry) photochemical


colophene

en-noun

colophene (countable and uncountable, plural colophenes)

(chemistry) A colorless oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony, and regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene.


galacturonosyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any transferase that catalyzes the transfer of a galacturonic acid residue


SFG

SFG (countable and uncountable, plural SFGs)

sum frequency generation
sum frequency generation#English

(spectroscopy) Initialism of sum frequency generation.


OOS

object-oriented scanning
w:object-oriented scanning

(physics, measurement) Initialism of object-oriented scanning.


WPT

wireless-power transfer
wireless-power transfer#English

(electricity) Abbreviation of wireless-power transfer.


CIPM

w:International Committee for Weights and Measures

(physics, standardisation) Initialism of International Committee for Weights and Measures. (French abbreviation)


quadrium

The decimal character of 4.1 is a reminder that this is not a conventional H isotope such as quadrium, ⁴H, or other isotopes up to ⁷H, with lifetimes, when known in the 0.1 to 1 zs range.

2011, “Kinetic Isotope Effects for the Reactions of Muonic Helium and Muonium with H₂”, in Science, volume 331, number 6016, page 448:

(physics, rare) A highly unstable synthetic isotope of the element hydrogen, ⁴₁H, having one proton and three neutrons.


high vacuum

(physics) A vacuum having a pressure less than about a hundred millipascals


mononuclidic

(physics, of an element) That exists in nature as a single nuclide


atmo

1880? William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Heat
under a constant pressure of one atmo

atmospheric pressure
atmospheric pressure

(physics, dated) The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements and calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0° Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris.


superinjection

superinjection (countable and uncountable, plural superinjections)

(physics) A condition in which the injected carrier concentration in a heterojunction exceeds the carrier concentration of the emitter


acceleration of gravity

(physics) The acceleration of freely falling bodies under the influence of terrestrial gravity; 980.665 cm/sec², denoted g.


peritrochium

From New Latin peritrochium, from Koine Greek περιτρόχιον (peritrókhion), from Ancient Greek περίτροχος (perítrokhos, “circular”).

der

[T]he engineer proceeded to the illustration of his mechanicks, tilting up his hand like a balance, thrusting it forward by way of lever, embracing the naturalist's nose like a wedge betwixt two of his fingers, and turning it round, with the momentum of a screw or peritrochium.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(mechanics) The wheel which, together with the axle, forms the axis in peritrochio.


incommensuration

To see how striking this incommensuration is, I plotted (see figure) the real part of the plane wave with Q = ( p [1- d ]/a, p /a), for a = 3.8 Å, with smooth interpolation between the lattice points.

1997 November 21, Sudip Chakravarty, “CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: Enhanced: Quantum Magnetism and Its Many Avatars”, in Science, volume 278, number 5342, →DOI, pages 1412–1413:

(physics) Incommensurate peaks in the spin fluctuation spectrum.


aneutronic

en-adj

aneutronic (comparative more aneutronic, superlative most aneutronic)

more aneutronic (comparative)
most aneutronic (superlative)

(nuclear physics) That does not involve or radiate neutrons


neutronic

(physics) Relating to neutrons or to neutronics


arbor Dianae

(physical chemistry) A precipitation of silver in a striking arborescent form.


antidown

(physics) Being or relating to an anti-down quark.


antibumping

antibumping chips or granules

an antibumping agent

(physical chemistry) Preventing sudden violent releases of vapour from boiling liquid.


antiup

(particle physics) Being or relating to an anti-up quark.


FDM

fuzzy dark matter
fuzzy dark matter#English

(particle physics, quantum mechanics, astrophysics, cosmology) Abbreviation of fuzzy dark matter.


desulfhydrase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the removal of the elements of hydrogen sulfide from a compound


tetraxenonogold

(inorganic chemistry) The cation AuXe₄²⁺


(physics) An isotope of yttrium, ⁹⁰₃₉Y, that is used in radiotherapy


technetate

(inorganic chemistry) Any oxyanion of technetium; any salt containing such an anion.


thorotrast

Blend of thorium + contrast. Originally a trade name.

(medicine) A radiographic contrast medium composed of a suspension of thorium dioxide.


Pleiadean

(science fiction, ufology) An alien being from the Pleiades.


HDM

(physics, astronomy, cosmology) Initialism of hot dark matter.


Abbe refractometer

en-noun

Abbe refractometer (plural Abbe refractometers)

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

(physics) An instrument used to measure the refractive index of a liquid, by utilizing the critical angle for total reflection.


cyanoborohydride

(inorganic chemistry) The anion BH₃-C≡N⁻; any salt containing this anion


Abel test

Derived from the surname of Sir Frederick Abel, English chemist.

(physical chemistry) A test to determine the flash point of a volatile oil.

(physical chemistry) A test for the stability of smokeless powder and similar explosives.


atomic physics

(physics, atomic) The branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei.

atomifysiikka

the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei


metallophosphatase

(biochemistry) Any metalloenzyme that functions as a phosphatase


monoelectronic

(physics) Having, or involving a single electron


antifermionic

(particle physics) Relating to antifermions.


near field

(acoustics) The region within a distance a fraction of a wavelength from a sound source. Accordingly, the outer boundary of the near-field region is closer for high-pitched sound than for low-pitched sound.


dipole wave

(physics) Any wave (electromagnetic, gravitational etc.) caused by transitions in a dipole


autothermic

(physical chemistry, of a reaction) exothermic to an extent that the generated heat sustains the reaction


cytase

(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes, found especially in cereals, that solubilize cell walls by hydrolyzing mannan, galactan, xylan and araban.


atom physics

(physics, atomic) Synonym of atomic physics


Standard Model

Coined by American physicists Abraham Pais and Sam Treiman in 1975.

coin

I shall call this the standard model (SM). There is promise that this model is part of the truth.

1977 January 1, Abraham Pais, “Current problems in the weak interactions”, in Symposium on five decades of weak interactions:

Prof Mark Lancaster, who is the UK lead for the experiment, told BBC News: "We have found the interaction of muons are not in agreement with the Standard Model [the current widely accepted theory to explain how the building blocks of the Universe behave]."

2021 April 7, Pallab Ghosh, quoting Mark Lancaster, “Muons: 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature”, in BBC News:

strong nuclear interaction
strong nuclear interaction

(particle physics) A theory about the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions that mediate the dynamics of the known subatomic particles.


Higgs field

en-noun

Higgs field (usually uncountable, plural Higgs fields)

From Higgs (“a surname”) + field; named after British physicist Peter Higgs, who is credited with proposing what is now called the Higgs mechanism.

named-after

(physics) A theoretical scalar field associated with electroweak symmetry breaking, the quantum of which is the Higgs boson; interaction with this field is hypothesised to give elementary particles their mass.


Higgs-like

From Higgs (“a surname”) + -like, from Peter Higgs, credited with the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson.

In the MA gauge, the Higgs-like mechanism takes place at the infrared scale of QCD.

2001, K. Amemia, H. Suganuma, H. Ichie, “Off-diagonal Gluon Mass Generation and Strong Randomness of Off-diagonal Gluon Phase in Maximally Abelian Gauge”, in International Symposium on Quantum Chromodynamics and Color Confinement, page 333:

In this model gravity emerges from the small wiggling of the string, which results in the gravity field on a large scale. This emergent Higgs-like field results from small wiggly vibrations of the string.

2005, Lawrence B. Crowell, Quantum Fluctuations of Spacetime, page 206:

But in the gauge-Higgs theory we have discussed, it seems impossible to distinguish between the confinement-like and Higgs-like regions of the theory in terms of the spontaneous symmetry breaking of gauge symmetry.

2011, Jeff Greensite, An Introduction to the Confinement Problem, page 30:

(physics) Imbuing elementary particles with mass through the breaking of electroweak symmetry and the interaction with some field.

So there will be three massless (or nearly massless, if there is some breaking of the new O(4) symmetry) "dark" Nambu-Goldstone bosons I call k, as well as a new massive Higgs-like boson called S.

2003, James Bjorken, In Conclusion: A Collection of Summary Talks in High Energy Physics, page 398:

Indeed, there is an important region of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) where there is just one Higgs-like particle accessible to the LHC with properties almost identical to the Standard Model Higgs.

2008, Guido Altarelli, Kunio Inoue, Takaaki Kajita, Martin Grünewald, Elementary Particles, page 12-8:

In a culmination of 50 years of theoretical speculation and three weeks of intense media frenzy, two teams of researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research said they had independently discovered evidence for a "Higgs-like" boson, the long-sought elementary particle that gives mass to the universe.

2012 July 4, Thomas H. Maugh II, “CERN physicists say they have discovered "Higgs-like" boson”, in Los Angeles Times:

(physics) (of a particle) Similar in mass and other properties to the proposed Standard Model Higgs boson.


Higgs mechanism

From Higgs (“a surname”) + mechanism; named after British physicist Peter Higgs, who is credited with its discovery.

elementary particles
elementary particles

(physics) The proposed interaction between elementary particles and the Higgs field that imbues the particles with mass and breaks the electroweak symmetry.


absolute pressure

(physics, meteorology) Total pressure in a fluid equivalent to the sum of the gage and the atmospheric pressures.

presión absoluta

pressure caused by weight of the atmosphere


absorption cell

en-noun

absorption cell (plural absorption cells)

(physics) A container, that allows light to pass through, used to store and study liquids and their optical absorption rate.


absorption dynamometer

absorption dynamometer (plural absorption dynamometers)

(physics) An instrument used to measure force, by measuring the energy absorbed via friction or electrical resistance.


absorption edge

absorption edge (plural absorption edges)

/æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ɜd͡ʒ/

/æbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ɜd͡ʒ/

/əbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ ɜd͡ʒ/

/əbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ ɜd͡ʒ/

(physics) The boundary of a dark band in an x-ray spectrum.


tauonic

(physics) Pertaining to, or composed of, tauons.


phosphoglyceromutase

(biochemistry) An enzyme involved in glycolysis that catalyzes the internal transfer of a phosphate group from C-3 to C-2, resulting in the conversion of 3-phosphoglycerate to 2-phosphoglycerate through a 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate intermediate.


galactowaldenase

From galacto- + Walden + -ase, in reference to the Walden inversion.

(biochemistry) Synonym of phosphogalactoisomerase


egression

The egression (H₊) is simply the time reverse of Equation (1).

2008, Laurent Gizon, Paul S. Cally, John Leibacher, Helioseismology, Asteroseismology, and MHD Connections, page 344:

Similarly applied to the acoustic egression, <[H₊(r,t)]²>, the result is an "egression-power map".

2011, Freddy Monroy, Holography: Different Fields of Application, page 84:

The difference between the egression power plots representing the acoustic glory and those representing the quiet Sun are fairly conspicuous.

2012, A.-C. Donea, C. Lindsey, D.C. Braun, “Stochastic Seismic Emission from Acoustic Glories and the Quiet Sun”, in Zdenek Svestka, John W. Harvey, editor, Helioseismic Diagnostics of Solar Convection and Activity, page 326:

We are not able to reliably identify with the TD method any visible acoustic sources at the southern egression source locations 1 and 2, perhaps due to different physical conditions in these locations and the strong transient magnetic field variations and atmospheric contribution present in the GONG velocity observations.

2012, Valentina Zharkova, Electron and Proton Kinetics and Dynamics in Flaring Atmospheres:

(physics) A calculated version of the wave field that emanated from a specified location at a specified time.


starmatter

I was distracted by a pictorial retelling of the cosmic cycle of birth, as endless starmatter condensed and exploded, while my body was given a thorough purge and overhaul.

The material or matter from which stars are made or of which they consist; starstuff.


starstuff

From star + stuff. Compare Dutch sterrenstof (“stardust”), German Sternenstoff (“star matter”).

Not only is the matter around you star-stuff, but you are, too. There is not a single cell in your body that is not made of matter formed in the heart, and then the death, of a distant and now-extinct star.

2004, Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight:

"[…] We have begun to contemplate our origins—starstuff pondering the stars!”

2009, Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution:

Energy takes starstuff and turns it into a horse. Dissolves the horse back into stardust and uses the same starstuff to grow a tree.

2009, David Waite Yohn, Energy: Lifestyle For Today:

“The Cache,” said Leonard. “A large quantity of starstuff, hidden here in London centuries ago.” “Hidden by whom?” “By the original Starcatchers,” said Leonard.

2010, Dave Barry, Peter and the Sword of Mercy:

Others have discussed this idea, such as the physicist Greg Matloff, who states: In one of his books, the late Carl Sagan states that we are all 'starstuff,' since the atoms that compose us were mostly generated in the explosive demise of a super giant star.

2011, K. F. Long, Deep Space Propulsion: A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight:

They were just a third of the solar radius out from the centre now, with nearly five hundred thousand kilometres of starstuff over their heads.

2017, Stephen Baxter, Xeelee: Vengeance:

The material composition of stars; matter originated from stars; starmatter.


ghost rocket

A poem in Copenhagen’s Berlingske Tidende, July 31, 1946, last page, made reference to a recent sensational ghost rocket sighting over Byen, expressing relief that the “rocket” was actually a meteor:

2001, Robert E. Bartholomew, Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns, and Head-hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion, McFarland, page 273:

Many ghost rocket sightings came from Sweden, which is near the Soviet Union. U.S. and British officials convinced the Swedes to study reports of the ghost rockets. The Swedes found pieces of metal that they though came from crashed ghost rockets.

2011, Michael Burgan, Andrew Nichols, Searching for Aliens, UFOs, and Men in Black, Capstone Press, page 11:

The Swedish experts claimed that some 20 percent of the ghost rocket reports appeared to be neither aircraft nor natural phenomena.

2012, Ronald Story, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, Constable & Robinson Ltd, page 243:

unidentified flying objects
unidentified flying objects

(ufology) Any of the rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.

spökraket

rocket shaped UFOs sighted in 1946 in Sweden


black triangle

Somewhere behind that blinking yellow light that black triangle was hovering, (or moving only a few miles per hour), in our direction, straight at us.

2005, Bill Foster, Peggy Foster, Nadine Wheeler, The Black Triangle Abduction, The Invisible College Press, page 22

Note: The black triangle is a commonly seen UFO.

2007, Craig R. Lang, The Cosmic Bridge, Close Encounters and Human Destiny, lulu.com, page 4:

On Thursday, July 15, 2004, I flew to Denver, Colorado, where I was scheduled to speak at the annual symposium of the Mutual UFO Network on the subject of a particular type of UFO that has become known as the “Black Triangle,” and one that has been seen regularly in the skies of practically every corner of the planet for approximately the last two decades.

2009, Nick Redfern, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter, ReadHowYouWant.com, page 105:

Just three years after the Belgian black triangle incident, a similar craft appeared over RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury.

2011, William J. Birnes, The Everything UFO Book: An Investigation of Sightings, Cover-ups, and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life, Adams Media, page 229:

(ufology) One of a class of triangle-shaped unidentified flying objects, usually with a light in each corner.


Haunebu

This technology led to the amazing German flying saucers of the Haunebu and Vril classes built under SS auspices.

2003, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, NYU Press, page 295:

[…] and what crashed at Roswell was most likely a Haunebu.

2007, James Sheridan, The Pandora Prescription, Sterling & Ross Publishers, page 17:

However, some weeks after Ger-many surrendered, both Haunebu and Vril craft were spotted in the skies over occupied Germany.

2010, George Romero, The Rescue, Lotus Vision Publishing Company, page 165

(ufology, plural "Haunebus") Any of a class of flying saucers supposedly built by the Nazis.


lumen-second

(physics) Alternative form of lumen second


lumen second

(physics) A derived SI unit of luminous energy.


Vril

Coined by British statesman and author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race, later titled Vril, apparently as a clipping of virile.

coined

Coordinate term: Haunebu

Operation Highjump has turned out to be a hot topic for UFO conspiracy theorists over recent years, who claim it was a secret US military campaign to defeat and destroy supposed secret Nazi facilities in Antarctica and seize the German Vril flying discs, and the Thule mercury propelled spacecraft.

2012, Jack Follett, Special Report 2011: Hitler's Secret UFO Weapons, BoD – Books on Demand, page 38:

(ufology, attributive) A kind of flying saucer supposedly built by the Nazis.


particle zoo

Initially nuclear zoo, from the effort to create a taxonomy of particles similar to the animal kingdom.

(physics, informal) The extensive list of known elementary particles.


massic

(physics) Describing any measure obtained by dividing a physical quantity by a mass


arabinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of arabinans

arabinase

any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of arabinans


phosphoribulokinase

(biochemistry) A phosphotransferase that acts on ribulose phosphate


sedolisin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of peptidases that hydrolyze serine derivatives


renalase

(biochemistry) An enzyme, released by the kidney, that breaks down adrenaline and related compounds


hemicellulase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of hemicellulose


Eddington luminosity

en-noun

Eddington luminosity (plural Eddington luminosities)

Named after British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington

named-after

hydrostatic equilibrium
hydrostatic equilibrium

(physics) The maximum luminosity of a source where the continuum radiation force outwards balances the gravitational force inwards in hydrostatic equilibrium.


pelicanist

From pelican + -ist. Coined by Jerome Clark in reference to claims that Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 UFO sighting was pelicans.

Kottmeyer and others who use the psychosocial hypothesis constantly produce evidence to support their ideas, whereas the ETH proponents can produce only cranky ideas about magnetic, anti-gravity or interdimensional saucers, accompanied by a constant whining about "sceptics" and "debunkers" (not to mention "armchair ufologists" and "pelicanists").

2000 November 22, “Blue Resonant Human” (username), “::: Should Saucers Spin? :::”, in alt.alien.research, Usenet

Meanwhile, those of us who’ve experienced UFOs in various ways are called mentally ill, intellectually challenged, spiritually needy, liars, drunks, drug users, attention getters, drama queens, and more. Those all are worse than being called a thug, skeptibunkie, or Pelicanist. (Pelicanist is a term coined by UFO researcher Jerome Clark.)

2006 September 12, “LordOfThyNight” (username), “The Usual Purple Tinged Hyperbole About UFOs”, in The Paranormal & Ghost Society, Usenet

As opposed to... Skepticism of the pelicanist flavor perhaps ?

2009 November 29, “Tom Booth” (username), “For Serena,”, in alt.fan.landmark, Usenet

(chiefly ufology, derogatory) Someone who attempts to explain away UFO reports by means of any explanation, however illogical.


Tall White

All of the Tall White scout craft were very high performance vehicles.

2007, Charles James Hall, Millennial Hospitality IV: After Hours, AuthorHouse, page 322:

No one is sure when the Tall Whites arrived on earth, some saying in the Pre-Columbian period […]

2007, Gregory L. Reece, UFO religion: inside flying saucer cults and culture, I. B. Tauris, page 76:

However, in the years that followed, such descriptions became so common that this type of alien became known as the Tall White.

2011, Stuart A. Kallen, Aliens, ReferencePoint Press, page 26:

(ufology) A member of a certain race of extraterrestrials


lattice constant

en-noun

lattice constant (plural lattice constants)

(crystallography) A constant which describes the geometry of a unit cell in a crystal lattice.


Leyden jar

/ˈlaɪdən ˌdʒɑɹ/

Named after the city of Leiden (in the Netherlands), where it was invented.

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(electrical engineering, historical) A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate static electricity between two electrodes.

قَارُورَة لَيْدَن

glass jar used to accumulate static electricity


heparanase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of heparan sulfate into oligosaccharides


monomethylase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes monomethylation


neprilysin

neprilysin (countable and uncountable, plural neprilysins)

membrane metallo-endopeptidase
membrane metallo-endopeptidase

(biochemistry) A particular type of metalloprotease, namely membrane metallo-endopeptidase (MME)

common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen


transcarbamoylase

(biochemistry) Any transferase that catalyzes the transfer of a carbamoyl group.


light day

(astronomy, physics) A unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one day; about 170 astronomical units


microbarom

Microbaroms are a significant noise source that can potentially interfere with the detection of infrasound from nuclear explosions.

(acoustics) A kind of atmospheric infrasonic wave generated in marine storms by a non-linear interaction of ocean surface waves with the atmosphere.


guanylylcyclase

guanylylcyclase (countable and uncountable, plural guanylylcyclases)

guanosine triphosphate
guanosine triphosphate

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the cyclization of guanosine triphosphate


temporospatial

Relating to both time and space, or spacetime.


isosbestic point

isosbestic point (plural isosbestic points)

(spectroscopy) A specific wavelength at which two chemical species have the same molar absorptivity.


deoxygenase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes a deoxygenation reaction


cystathionase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of cystathionine into cysteine


dehydrochlorinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes a dehydrochlorination reaction


cycloisomerase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes a cycloisomerization reaction


dechlorinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes a dechlorination reaction


photochlorination

photochlorination (countable and uncountable, plural photochlorinations)


thiolase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the removal of a thiol group.


mechanobiology

(biology, mechanics) The study of the mechanics (physical forces and interactions) of biological systems


Rb-Sr

The age of the Panda intrusion has been dated precisely by Rb-Sr determinations on kimberlitic phlogopite (n = 7), yielding a robust isochron of 53.3±0.6 Ma (Early Eocene, Ypresian).

2012, Wolfe AP, Csank AZ, Reyes AV, McKellar RC, Tappert R, et al., "Pristine Early Eocene Wood Buried Deeply in Kimberlite from Northern Canada", PLoS ONE 7(9): e45537. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045537


rubidium-strontium

Isotopic dating of meteorites using the rubidium-strontium system and others indicates that the most primitive rocks in the solar system are 4.56 billion years old, determined rather precisely.

1999, Jonathan I Lunine, Earth: Evolution of a Habitable World, page 101:

(attributive) Designating a method of geological dating based on the relative amounts in rock of rubidium-87 and its beta-decay product, strontium-87.


hydroxycinnamoyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the transfer of a hydroxycinnamoyl group


benzoyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the transfer of a benzoyl group


carboxylesterase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a carboxylic ester


diopteric aberration

diopteric aberration (plural diopteric aberrations)

spherical aberration
spherical aberration#English

(optics) Alternative form of spherical aberration


lateral aberration

lateral aberration (countable and uncountable, plural lateral aberrations)

/ˈlæt.ɚ.l̩ ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩/

(optics) Deviation from the correct point of focus measured perpendicular to the axis.


longitudinal aberration

longitudinal aberration (plural longitudinal aberrations)

(optics) Deviation from the correct point of focus measured parallel to the axis.


chymopapain

chymopapain (countable and uncountable, plural chymopapains)

(biochemistry) A proteolytic enzyme isolated from the latex of papaya and used to treat herniated lower lumbar discs in the spine.


antizyme

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that inhibits the action of another


chemobiology

(biochemistry, physical chemistry) The study of the effect of chemical structure on biological activity


kallidinogenase

kallidinogenase (countable and uncountable, plural kallidinogenases)


ectophosphodiesterase

(biochemistry) Any phosphodiesterase that is active outside of a cell.


ectonucleotidase

(biochemistry) Any nucleotidase that is active outside of a cell


Secchi depth

From Secchi disk + depth, from Italian Secchi, from Angelo Secchi.

A measure of the turbidity of a body of water; the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible.

profondità di scomparsa del disco di Secchi


proprotease

(biochemistry) Any proenzyme that is converted into a protease


tryptase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of serine proteinase contained in mast cells


carbapenemase

carbapenemase (countable and uncountable, plural carbapenemases)

(biochemistry) Any lactamase that can hydrolyze carbapenem antibiotics and thus provide resistance to them


eigengene

1999, Orly Alter et al., ‘‘Singular Value Decomposition for Gene Expression Data Processing and Modeling.’’ In: After the Genome V (October 6–10, 1999, Jackson Hole, WY), published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
We describe the use of singular value decomposition in transforming gene expression data from genes/arrays space to ‘‘eigengenes’’/‘‘eigenarrays’’ space, where the eigengenes and eigenarrays are unique orthonormal superpositions of the genes and arrays, respectively.

(genetics) (mathematics) (physics) One of a set of right singular vectors of a genes x samples matrix that tabulates, e.g., the mRNA or gene expression of the genes across the samples.


wave-particle

(quantum mechanics) An entity which simultaneously has the properties of a wave and a particle.


cellulosome

(biochemistry) A complex of enzymes that degrade the polysaccharide surface of cells and mediate cell attachment


autolysin

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that hydrolyses a component of the cell (or tissue) in which it is produced


uridylyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any transferase that catalyses the transfer of a uridylyl group between molecules


flavordynamics

From flavor + dynamics, by analogy with electrodynamics and chromodynamics.

Toiday it is assumed that all three types of interactions can be described by quantum field theories: the electromagnetic interaction by quantum electrodynamics, the strong one by quantum chromodynamics, and the weak one by quantum flavordynamics.

2010, Armin Wachter, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, page 177:

(physics, rare) The theory of the weak interaction in quantum physics.


endosulfatase

(biochemistry) Any sulfatase that acts as an endoenzyme


holonomic constraint

holonomic constraint (plural holonomic constraints)

(physics, classical mechanics) One of the equations/identities which define a variety within the configuration space, such that the state of the physical system being described is constrained to correspond only to points within that variety.


serratiopeptidase

A proteolytic enzyme (protease) produced by Serratia enterobacteria.


cruzipain

(biochemistry) A particular cysteine protease


methylesterase

(biochemistry) Any esterase that catalyses the hydrolysis of a methyl ester


biphotochromic

(physical chemistry) Having two photochromic centres


muropeptidase

(biochemistry) Any peptidase that catalyses the hydrolysis of a muropeptide


abmho

(electricity) A unit of measurement (10⁹ mhos) in the centimeter-gram-second scale used to measure conductance


coion

(chemistry) Any ion of the same charge as another in a solution or other electrochemical system.


ubiquitylase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the removal of a ubiquitin molecule from a protein.


polyesterase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of polyesters


endochitinase

(biochemistry) Any chitinase that can cleave a chitin molecule at a random point within the its chain


tankyrase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of proteins, associated with telomeres, that contain ankyrin repeats


chromenylium

chromenylium (countable and uncountable, plural chromenyliums)

(organic chemistry) The aromatic cation composed of a benzene ring fused to one of pyrylium


xanthylium

xanthylium (countable and uncountable, plural xanthyliums)

(organic chemistry) The aromatic cation composed of two benzene rings fused to one of pyrylium


mutanolysin

(biochemistry) A muralytic enzyme, obtained from Streptomyces, that is used in laboratories to degrade bacteria and to isolate DNA


chemoelectrical

(physical chemistry, physics) Describing any process in which chemical energy is converted to electrical energy


ectoapyrase

(biochemistry) Any extracellular apyrase


quinolinium

quinolinium (countable and uncountable, plural quinoliniums)

(organic chemistry) The cation formed by protonation of a quinoline


galactase

galactase (countable and uncountable, plural galactases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that produces galactose by the hydrolysis of lactose


dimethylaminohydrolase

(biochemistry) Any hydrolase that catalyses the removal of dimethylamine residues from a molecule


crotonase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydration of crotonyl-coenzyme A


breaking point

breaking point (countable and uncountable, plural breaking points)

(mechanics) The point at which the increasing strain in a material causes it to break.


radioresponse

(physiology) The body's recovery/repair response, in the form of specific cytokines, to radiation damage


optical axis

(optics) An imaginary line within an optical system around which there is rotational symmetry.


axial tilt

(physics, astronomy) The angle between the rotational axis and the orbital axis of an orbiting celestial object.

obliquity

angle between rotational and orbital axes


diascopic

(optics) Describing an optical device in which light traverses (rather than being reflected by) the object being observed.


caloritronics

(physics) The generation and control of currents of heat, especially by means of the degree of freedom of electron spin


metastructure

2012 Christos Argyropoulos et al, "Broadband Absorbers and Selective Emitters based on Plasmonic Brewster Metasurfaces" arXiv
We discuss the possibility of realizing utlrabroadband omnidirectional absorbers and angularly selective coherent thermal emitters based on properly patterned plasmonic metastructures.

(physics) A structure that has one or several properties similar to those of metamaterials


monophase

(electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.

unchesmadagh

having a single phase of alternating current

(chemistry, physics) Existing as a single phase (normally a liquid).


monophase

(chemistry, physics) A substance existing as a single phase.


episcopic

(optics) Describing an optical device in which light is reflected by (rather than traversing) the object being observed


millicharged

(physics) (of a particle) Having an electric charge less than one thousandth that of the electron


epoxidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes an epoxidation reaction.


ACF

auto-collimating flat
auto-collimating flat#English

(optics) Initialism of auto-collimating flat (a type of mirror)


phosphoglycerate kinase

phosphoglycerate kinase (plural phosphoglycerate kinases)

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a phosphate group between ATP and phosphoglycerate


autolocalization

(physics) The localization of a particle by means of its own charge


autolocalized

(physics) localized as a result of autolocalization


't Hooft operator

't Hooft operator (plural 't Hooft operators)

Introduced by Gerard 't Hooft in the 1978 paper On the phase transition towards permanent quark confinement.

(physics) A dual version of the Wilson loop in which the electromagnetic potential A is replaced by its electromagnetic dual Aᵐᵃᵍ, where the exterior derivative of A is equal to the Hodge dual of the exterior derivative of Aᵐᵃᵍ.


hyperhydrogen

(physics) An atomic nucleus, an isotope of hydrogen which contains one proton and at least one uncharged lambda hyperon.


microdosimetry

(physics) The measurement of the effects of very small amounts of ionizing radiation, especially that along a single track of such radiation


pseudofermion

(physics) A form of fermion that has integer spin


dextrinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a dextrin


dethermalization

(physics) The removal of thermal interactions within a system


retropepsin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of retroviral proteases


oligopeptidase

From oligo- + peptidase or from oligopeptide + -ase.

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis (cleavage) of a short oligopeptide rather than a protein


signalase

(biochemistry) A peptidase that cleaves signal peptides from secreted proteins cotranslationally


isostructure

(physics) A solid that has the same electronic or crystal structure as another


autophoresis

(physics) The spontaneous movement of particles in a suspension caused by nonlinear interplay between surface osmotic flows and solute advection


vis viva

From Latin, meaning "live force", coined by Gottfried W. Leibniz in order to denote a quantity discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

(physics, obsolete) The product of an object's mass and the square of its speed.


reduced mass

(physics) Half of the harmonic mean of two given masses.


aspartase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the deamination of aspartic acid to fumaric acid and ammonia

aspartase

any enzyme that catalyses the deamination of aspartic acid to fumaric acid and ammonia


heparinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolytic cleavage of heparins


glutamyltranspeptidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the transfer of glutamic acid residues between proteins.


microphotoluminescence

(physics) photoluminescence of microscopic structures


rotodiffusion

(physics) rotatory (gyrokinetic) diffusion


X boson

(physics) A hypothetical elementary particle that couples quarks to leptons, analogous to the W boson and Z boson, but corresponding to a new type of force predicted by the Georgi–Glashow model.


predecoherence

(physics) A quantum state that leads to decoherence


prethermalization

(physics) localized thermalization that leads to full thermalization over time


uncollimated

(physics) Not collimated (convergent or divergent)


quasichemical

(physics) Describing the interactions of particles that resemble chemical reactions


mictomagnetism

(physics) A form of quantum magnetism involving the overlap of wave functions


fissibility

fissibility (countable and uncountable, plural fissibilities)

A measure of the ease with which something (such as stone) can be split.

(physics) The ease with which a nucleus undergoes fission.


subsphere

The self-gravitational correction to a localized spherically symmetric static energy distribution is obtained from the negative Newtonian gravitational work done to successively assemble each spherical energy shell in the gravitational field of the already energy-corrected subsphere which that shell abuts.

2012, Steven Kenneth Kauffmann, “A Self-Gravitational Upper Bound on Localized Energy, Including that of Virtual Particles and Quantum Fields, which Yields a Passable "Dark Energy" Density Estimate”, in arXiv:

(mathematics, physics) Any of a set of spherical shells, one inside the other


chronophin

(biochemistry) A serine protein phosphatase that regulates cofilin-dependent actin dynamics


photoisomerase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that catalyse the isomerization of photopigments


ubiquitinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes a ubiquitination reaction


adaptometry

(optics) The measurement of threshold of brightness by means of an adaptometer

adaptometria

measurement of the threshold of brightness


multipatch

(physics) A curvilinear grid used to model aspects of general relativity


hysteron

(physics, mathematics) A two-valued operator that is used to model hysteresis.


susceptometry

(physics) The measurement of paramagnetic, diamagnetic or ferromagnetic susceptibility


verdoperoxidase

verdoperoxidase (countable and uncountable, plural verdoperoxidases)


farnesyltranstransferase

farnesyltranstransferase (usually uncountable, plural farnesyltranstransferases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction trans,trans-farnesyl diphosphate + isopentenyl diphosphate ⇌ diphosphate + geranylgeranyl diphosphate, involved in steroid and terpenoid biosynthesis.


galactosylceramidase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that removes galactose from ceramide derivatives (galactocerebrosides).


levansucrase

(biochemistry) A hexosyltransferase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction sucrose + (2,6-beta-D-fructosyl)n ⇌ glucose + (2,6-beta-D-fructosyl)n⁺1.


femtolensing

gravitational lensing
gravitational lensing

(physics, astronomy) A form of gravitational lensing in which the magnification has a dependency upon the wavelength of the light being observed


hadrochemical

(physics) Describing interactions between hadrons that have similarities with chemical reactions.


beamtrain

(physics) The connected beams of light in an interferometer or similar device.


plasmepsin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of aspartic acid protease enzymes produced by the plasmodium parasite.


radiogenesis

The production of nuclides by radioactive decay.


superactivation

superactivation (countable and uncountable, plural superactivations)

(physics) The activation of a pair of quantum channels that each have zero capacity in order to achieve a nonzero capacity.


rhamnulokinase

(biochemistry) A transferase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + L-rhamnulose ⇌ ADP + L-rhamnulose 1-phosphate.


ribokinase

(biochemistry) A transferase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + D-ribose ⇌ ADP + D-ribose 5-phosphate.


ribulokinase

(biochemistry) A transferase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + L(or D)-ribulose ⇌ ADP + L(or D)-ribulose 5-phosphate.


gyrolaser

(physics) A ring laser used to measure rotation


ficain

(biochemistry) An enzyme derived from figs.


galactokinase

galactokinase (countable and uncountable, plural galactokinases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that facilitates the phosphorylation of α-D-galactose to galactose 1-phosphate at the expense of one molecule of ATP.


gluconokinase

(biochemistry) A transferase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + D-gluconate ⇌ ADP + 6-phospho-D-gluconate.


gluconolactonase

(biochemistry) A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction D-glucono-1,5-lactone + H₂O ⇌ D-gluconate.


glycosylceramidase

(biochemistry) A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction glycosyl-N-acylsphingosine + H₂O ⇌ N-acylsphingosine + a sugar.


guanylyltransferase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that transfers a guanosine monophosphate group, usually from GTP to another molecule, releasing pyrophosphate.


guanase

(biochemistry) guanine deaminase, an enzyme


Schrödinger equation

Schrödinger equation (plural Schrödinger equations)

partial differential equation
partial differential equation

(quantum mechanics) In nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, a partial differential equation that describes how the quantum state of some physical system changes with time.


imidazolonepropionase

(biochemistry) A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction (S)-3-(5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-3H-imidazol-4-yl)propanoate + H₂O ⇌ N-formimidoyl-L-glutamate + H⁺.


iduronidase

iduronidase (countable and uncountable, plural iduronidases)

/ˌaɪ.d͡ʒəˈɹɑn.əˌdeɪs/

(biochemistry) An enzyme involved in the degeneration of glycosaminoglycans, and found in the lysosomes of cells.


isomultiplet

(physics) A hadron that differs from another by having one (or more) of its quarks replaced by the equivalent antiquark


quasipotential

(mathematics, physics) A complex function of momentum and energy applied to an individual attractor in a complex system of multiple attractors


suicide cable

So called because when one end is plugged into a live outlet, the exposed prongs of the other end are highly dangerous.

When the hurricane hit and I lost power, I fired up the generator and jacked it in to the outlet in my garage with a suicide cable; at least I was able to run a few lights and my refrigerator.

I did the same thing as you, except I ran one suicide cable from the genset to the house, then because the genset is only 120v, I ran another suicide cable from phase to phase to get 120v throughout the house.

2000 June 19, Philip Lewis, “Dedicated outlets for generator?”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):

Measure the voltage drop when it's on. Break out the suicide cables and test that same device using line to ground. Depending on how your place is wired, you may find that under an actual load, your ground is really awful.

2010 May 29, Cydrome Leader, “re: surge protectors”, in sci.electronics.repair (Usenet):

No, I'm not. That would only make sense if the grid power were persistently unreliable, which it isn't. Nor am I using a suicide cable.

2011 February 25, Sylvia Else, “Not earthing a generator”, in aus.electronics (Usenet):

(informal, electrical work) 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 dead outlet (in a house with no power) allows power to be injected from the live outlet into the dead one.


ascorbase

(biochemistry) L-ascorbate oxidase, an oxidoreductase enzyme.


amylopullulanase

amylopullulanase (countable and uncountable, plural amylopullulanases)

(biochemistry) A glycoside hydrolase enzyme with amylase and pullulanase activity.


arylsulfotransferase

(biochemistry) A sulfotransferase enzyme that transfers a sulfate group from phenolic sulfate esters to a phenolic acceptor substrate.


aminase

(biochemistry) An enzyme involved in amination.


arabinosyltransferase

(biochemistry) A transferase enzyme acting upon arabinose, involved in polymerisation of arabinogalactan.

arabinosyylitransferaasi

a transferase enzyme acting upon arabinose


glutamyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a glutamyl group between molecules, especially between proteins


tenthmeter

(physics, archaic) A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 10¹⁰ of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.


thiaminase

thiaminase (countable and uncountable, plural thiaminases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that metabolizes or breaks down thiamine into two molecular parts.


thioglucosidase

(biochemistry) A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction a thioglucoside + H₂O ⇌ a sugar + a thiol.


thyroperoxidase

thyroperoxidase (countable and uncountable, plural thyroperoxidases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme, expressed mainly in the thyroid, that liberates iodine for addition onto tyrosine residues on thyroglobulin for the production of thyroxine or triiodothyronine.


tomatinase

tomatinase (countable and uncountable, plural tomatinases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that can degrade tomatine, found in some microbes.


thermohydraulics

(physics) The study of hydraulic flow in thermal systems

initdanumsigwasan

the study of hydraulic flow in thermal systems


transaldolase

transaldolase (countable and uncountable, plural transaldolases)

pentose phosphate pathway
pentose phosphate pathway

(biochemistry) An enzyme of the pentose phosphate pathway that catalyzes the chemical reaction sedoheptulose 7-phosphate + glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate ⇌ erythrose 4-phosphate + fructose 6-phosphate.


triokinase

(biochemistry) A transferase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + D-glyceraldehyde ⇌ ADP + D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate.


tyrase

(biochemistry) The enzyme tyrosine ammonia lyase.


tryptophanase

tryptophanase (countable and uncountable, plural tryptophanases)

(biochemistry) A lyase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction L-tryptophan + H₂O ⇌ indole + pyruvate + NH₃.


black noise

(physics, telecommunications) Technical silence; noise that has a frequency spectrum of predominantly zero power level over all frequencies except for a few narrow bands or spikes.


absolute unit

Compound of absolute (“independent, not relative”) + unit. Attested from the 19th century. Compare various scientific terms with prefix ab-, such as abohm.

compound

(physics) A unit of measurement that can be defined in terms of mass, length, and time.


elementary charge

en-noun

elementary charge (plural elementary charges)

(physics) The electric charge on a single proton or electron


discharge tube

(physics) Any device in which a flow of electrons (or ions) through a gas acts as a source of light


isotope effect

(chemistry, physics) The effect that differing masses of different isotopes of the same element have on the physical and chemical properties of that element


nuclear binding energy

nuclear binding energy (plural nuclear binding energies)

(nuclear physics) The energy needed to split an atomic nucleus into its component parts; equivalently, the energy value of bringing all the nucleons together.

Kernbindungsenergie

the energy needed to cause the fission of an atomic nucleus into its component parts


line spectrum

(physics) A spectrum, typically produced by a luminous gas, that consists of separate lines typical of particular elements


mass difference

mass difference (plural mass differences)


electrical energy

Energy made available for consumption or consumed in the form of electricity or electric power; electricity.


a-c

alternating current
alternating current#English

(electricity) Initialism of alternating current.


zymohexase

zymohexase (countable and uncountable, plural zymohexases)


katsuwokinase

From Japanese 鰹 (katsuo,historical katsuwo, “skipjack tuna”) + kinase.

der

(biochemistry) A particular fibrinolytic enzyme.


kininogenase

en-noun

kininogenase (countable and uncountable, plural kininogenases)


a.c.

Lamp a.c. generator Fig. 24.1

2000, Jim Breithaupt, New Understanding Physics for Advanced Level:

Thus the frequency of the given a.c. supply will be equal to the frequency of the vibrating string.


heat of fusion

heat of fusion (countable and uncountable, plural heats of fusion)

(physics) The amount of heat absorbed by unit mass of a material, at its melting point, that causes a phase transition from solid to liquid

sulamislämpö

enthalpy resulting from providing heat to a substance to change it from solid to liquid


SGM

(optics) Initialism of spherical grating monochromator.


quantum fluctuation

quantum fluctuation (plural quantum fluctuations)

Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Heisenberg uncertainty principle

(quantum mechanics) A momentary fluctuation in the energy at a point in space due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle


heat of vaporization

heat of vaporization (plural heats of vaporization)

(physics) The amount of heat needed to change a unit mass of material from a liquid to a gas at its boiling point


BESS

(physics) Initialism of Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer.


bond length

(physical chemistry) The distance between a pair of atoms that are bonded together in a molecule


bonding orbital

bonding orbital (plural bonding orbitals)

(physical chemistry, quantum mechanics) A molecular orbital, responsible for a covalent bond between two atoms, formed by overlap of their corresponding atomic orbitals


electron affinity

electron affinity (plural electron affinities)

(physics) The energy released when an electron is attached to an atom or molecule; used as a measure of its ability to form an anion


expansion cooling

(physics) The cooling of a gas as it undergoes adiabatic expansion


drop tower

(physics, engineering) A tower, containing a long evacuated tube, within which objects can be dropped experimentally.


helium hydride

(inorganic chemistry) Ellipsis of helium hydride cation. The unstable binary cation HeH⁺ present in interstellar space. It is the strongest acid, reactive with every chemical species except positive ions, including electrons.


lambda point

(physics) The temperature that is the transition point between the normal and the superfluid forms of helium (at a particular pressure)


constringence

constringence (countable and uncountable, plural constringences)

(physics, optics) A measure of a material's dispersion (variation of refractive index with wavelength) in relation to the refractive index.


crystal system

The crystal system to which a particular molecule belongs can make a considerable difference to how easy it is to solve.

1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:

(crystallography) Any of the seven distinct symmetry classifications of crystals: cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, triclinic and trigonal.


neutron capture

(physics) A form of nuclear reaction in which one or more neutrons are absorbed by an atomic nucleus

neutronisieppaus

nuclear reaction in which neutrons are absorbed


histidase

histidase (countable and uncountable, plural histidases)


histidinase

(biochemistry) Histidine ammonia-lyase, an enzyme that converts histidine into ammonia and urocanic acid.


hyaluronoglucosaminidase

hyaluronoglucosaminidase (countable and uncountable, plural hyaluronoglucosaminidases)

(biochemistry) A particular hyaluronidase enzyme.


hyaluronoglucuronidase

hyaluronoglucuronidase (countable and uncountable, plural hyaluronoglucuronidases)


critical temperature

critical temperature (plural critical temperatures)

(physics) The temperature at the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.


quantum bit

(physics) A normalized linear combination of an "up" state and a "down" state for, say, the spin of an electron.


galactocerebrosidase

galactocerebrosidase (countable and uncountable, plural galactocerebrosidases)


probability amplitude

probability amplitude (plural probability amplitudes)

(quantum mechanics) A complex number which is the coefficient of a component of a quantum state and whose product with its own complex conjugate gives the probability that the state will collapse to that component (when measured). (Note: the quantum state being thought of as a linear combination of its components.)


quantum logic

(logic, quantum mechanics) A form of non-classical logic which has been abstracted out of quantum mechanics.

The representation theorem (for quantum logic) shows that these quantum logics form a lattice which is isomorphic to the lattice of subspaces of a vector space with a scalar product.ᵂᴾ

(logic, quantum mechanics) A set of events that is closed under a countable disjunction of countably many mutually exclusive events.ᵂᴾ


phase factor

(quantum mechanics) A normalized complex number, considered as, say, the scalar coefficient of a ket.


telebooth

One point three parsecs from Earth a heartbeat was being monitored by an Amneshahn telebooth.

2005, J. E. Hoyes, The Empath of Amneshah, Book One: Turba, page 3:

We have telebooths that take us considerable distances in an instant.

2007, Charles Edward Harris, Suns of God, page 196:

(science fiction) A booth from which one can teleport to another location.


biotinidase

biotinidase (usually uncountable, plural biotinidases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that allows the body to use and recycle biotin.


bond order

(physical chemistry) The number of bonds between a pair of atoms in a molecule


buncher

The pulse width can be decreased by means of a buncher, which consists of a longitudinal re-entrant cavity. The first electrons to reach the buncher are accelerated by a weaker longitudinal field than those that reach it at later times.

1998, Ludwig Reimer, Scanning Electron Microscopy: Physics of Image Formation and Microanalysis, page 44:

Amplification has taken place because in the buncher grids the electrons are affected very little, but in the drift space this effect is given time to grow and the bunching becomes much more pronounced.[…]After leaving the buncher field the electrons travel towards the plate, are slowed down, stopped and then reattracted by the buncher.

2000, Andrew Leven, Telecommunication Circuits and Technology, page 364:

A two cavity Klystron amplifier consists of a cathode, focussing electrodes, two buncher grids separated by a very small distance forming a gap of two catcher grids with small gap B followed by a collector.

2009, V.S.Bagad, Microwave & Radar Engineering, pages 5–8:

Something that bunches or causes to bunch.

(electronics, physics) A circuit that causes electrons or other charged particles in a particle beam to group together.


malonyltransferase

malonyltransferase (countable and uncountable, plural malonyltransferases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of malonyl.


metapyrocatechase

metapyrocatechase (countable and uncountable, plural metapyrocatechases)

(biochemistry) Catechol 2,3-dioxygenase, an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction catechol + O₂ ⇌ 2-hydroxymuconate semialdehyde.


myokinase

myokinase (countable and uncountable, plural myokinases)

(biochemistry) adenylate kinase, a phosphotransferase enzyme that catalyzes the interconversion of adenine nucleotides and plays an important role in cellular energy homeostasis


proton capture

(nuclear physics) A nuclear reaction in which a proton is absorbed by a nucleus.


alkylhalidase

(biochemistry) A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction bromochloromethane + H₂O ⇌ formaldehyde + bromide + chloride.


agarase

agarase (countable and uncountable, plural agarases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme found in agarolytic bacteria, allowing them to use agar as their primary source of carbon.


aminoacylase

aminoacylase (countable and uncountable, plural aminoacylases)

(biochemistry) A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction an N-acyl-L-amino acid + H₂O ⇌ a carboxylate + an L-amino acid.


alternansucrase

alternansucrase (countable and uncountable, plural alternansucrases)

(biochemistry) A glycosyltransferase enzyme that catalyzes a chemical reaction that transfers an alpha-D-glucosyl residue from sucrose alternately to the 6- and 3-positions of the non-reducing terminal residue of an alpha-D-glucan, thereby creating a glucan with alternating alpha-1,6- and alpha-1,3-bonds.


aminoacyltransferase

aminoacyltransferase (countable and uncountable, plural aminoacyltransferases)

(biochemistry) Any acyltransferase enzyme that acts upon an amino group.


quasimode

(physics) A linear combination of modes of the universe that corresponds to a cavity resonance.


arylformamidase

arylformamidase (countable and uncountable, plural arylformamidases)

(biochemistry) A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction N-formyl-L-kynurenine + H₂O ⇌ formate + L-kynurenine.


argininosuccinase

argininosuccinase (countable and uncountable, plural argininosuccinases)

argininosuccinate lyase
argininosuccinate lyase


aryldialkylphosphatase

aryldialkylphosphatase (countable and uncountable, plural aryldialkylphosphatases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that hydrolyzes organophosphates: an aryl dialkyl phosphate + H₂O ⇌ dialkyl phosphate + an aryl alcohol.


gas centrifuge

(physics) A tall, slim centrifuge that is used to separate gases containing different isotopes


molecular orbital theory

(physics, chemistry) A method of determining the structure of a molecule by assuming that electrons are not fixed to bonds between individual atoms


surface layer

(physics) The layer of molecules at the surface of a liquid that is responsible for surface tension


peptidyltransferase

peptidyltransferase (countable and uncountable, plural peptidyltransferases)

(biochemistry) An aminoacyltransferase involved in protein biosynthesis.


prolidase

prolidase (countable and uncountable, plural prolidases)

(biochemistry) A cytosolic dipeptidase that hydrolyzes dipeptides with proline or hydroxyproline at the carboxy terminus (but not Pro-Pro), important in collagen metabolism.


population inversion

population inversion (plural population inversions)

(physics) The creation of a system in which more atoms or molecules are in an excited state than in a ground state.


fuel rod

Since it began operating in 1950, Sellafield has had different duties. First it manufactured plutonium for nuclear weapons. Then it generated electricity for the National Grid, until 2003. It also carried out years of fuel reprocessing: extracting uranium and plutonium from nuclear fuel rods after they’d ended their life cycles.

December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:

Over the years, the railway has been the safest way to move hazardous chemicals, radioactive waste, fuel for Royal Navy nuclear submarines and imported fuel for reprocessing, as well as flasks containing fuel rods to and from British power stations.

2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 21:

A long zirconium tube, filled with pellets of uranium oxide, stacked in bundles inside a nuclear reactor as fuel.


solubility product

solubility product (plural solubility products)

(chemistry, physics) The product of the individual solubilities of the cation and anion of a salt


molar volume

(chemistry, physics) The volume occupied by one mole of a substance (especially of a gas)


apertometer

(optics, microscopy) An instrument designed to measure the numerical aperture of a lens or objective of a microscope.


autohesion

(physical chemistry, of polymers) The spontaneous bonding or adherence between two unvulcanized surfaces of an elastomer.


foldase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes protein folding.


orthodome

(crystallography) A dome that is parallel to the orthodiagonal in a monoclinic crystal.


clinodome

(crystallography) A dome that is parallel to the inclined axis in a monoclinic crystal


multiple bond

(chemistry, physics) A covalent bond formed by the overlap of multiple pairs or electron orbitals


bond angle

(physical chemistry) The angle between two bonds that have a common atom.


micropipe

(crystallography) A defect in a single crystal substrate.


nitrite reductase

nitrite reductase (plural nitrite reductases)

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the reduction of nitrite ions


hydroxymethyltransferase

hydroxymethyltransferase (countable and uncountable, plural hydroxymethyltransferases)

(biochemistry) Any transferase enzyme that transfers a hydroxymethyl group.


reptoid

(ufology) A member of an extraterrestrial sapient species said to resemble a reptile, often ascribed shapeshifting capabilities and implicated in many conspiracy theories.


coefficient of thermal expansion

coefficient of thermal expansion (plural coefficients of thermal expansion)

coefficients of thermal expansion (plural)

(physics) The fractional change in size of a material as it is heated through one degree


atomic absorption spectroscopy

atomic absorption spectroscopy (uncountable)

(chemistry, physics) A quantitative analytical technique in which the content of various elements are measured via their absorption of light


nonsingularity

nonsingularity (countable and uncountable, plural nonsingularities)

(mathematics, physics) Absence of singularity.


electron capture

electron capture (plural electron captures)

(physics) A nuclear reaction in which an electron (either free, or from the shell of the atom itself) is absorbed into a nucleus, a proton being converted into a neutron in the process


neutron cross section

neutron cross section (plural neutron cross sections)

(physics) The cross section (probability) of a neutron capture reaction

Neutroneneinfangquerschnitt

cross section of a neutron capture reaction


crystal field theory

(physical chemistry, quantum mechanics) A description of various properties of transition element complex compounds that compares the effects of its ligands to that of neighbouring atoms in a crystal


molecular dynamics

(physics) The study of the physical movement of collections of atoms and molecules as they interact


mechanocaloric

(physics) Describing the production of heat by mechanical means, but especially the heating of liquid helium as some of it (the coldest atoms) escapes through minute pores


conceptual physics

(physics) a study and description of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy in conceptual non-mathematical form with emphasis on logical reasoning in order to derive fundamental laws of nature and to derive conclusions from these laws.


LEP

Large Electron-Positron Collider
w:Large Electron-Positron Collider

(physics) Initialism of Large Electron-Positron Collider.


XNAND

(electrical engineering, rare) XOR, a logic gate


XAND

(electrical engineering, rare) XNOR, a logic gate.


aldehyde oxidase

aldehyde oxidase (plural aldehyde oxidases)

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of an aldehyde to a carboxylic acid


astatate

(inorganic chemistry) The anion AtO₃⁻; any salt containing this anion.


astatide

(inorganic chemistry) A binary compound of astatine and another element.


perastatate

(inorganic chemistry) The anion AtO₄⁻; any salt containing this anion


Hartle-Hawking state

Hartle-Hawking state (plural Hartle-Hawking states)

Named after James Hartle and Stephen Hawking.

(physics) A hypothetical state of the universe prior to the Planck epoch, in which time did not exist, only space.

Hartle-Hawking state
James Hartle
Stephen Hawking


Heim theory

Initially proposed by German physicist Burkhard Heim.

theory of everything
theory of everything

(physics) A mathematical approach to developing a theory of everything in theoretical physics, based on quantizing spacetime into units called metrons.


gluonics

(physics) The study of gluons, gluonium, and the strong interaction.


quark theory

(physics) The theory that (most) baryons and mesons are composed of bound quarks and antiquarks.


quark model

(physics) A model organizing baryons and mesons according to their composition of bound quarks and antiquarks in groups of two or three; part of the Standard Model.


exotic hadron

quantum chromodynamics
quantum chromodynamics

(physics) Any hadron not permitted by the quark model but allowed by the more general theory of quantum chromodynamics, including hybrid mesons, gluoniums, pentaquarks, etc.


hybrid meson

(physics) A meson composed of quarks, antiquarks, and nonvirtual gluons (instead of the usual quark-antiquark pair bound by virtual gluons).


exotic meson

(physics) A meson existing outside of the quark model, such as a hybrid meson or a glueball.


Darcy friction factor

Darcy friction factor (plural Darcy friction factors)

From the name of hydraulic engineer Henry Darcy.

(fluid mechanics) A dimensionless friction factor relating the head loss over a pipe to the lengthscale of the pipe and the fluid velocity.


plekton

(physics) A theoretical elementary particle subject to braid statistics.


mirror matter

(physics) A hypothetical mirrored counterpart to ordinary physical matter.


cooperon

(mathematics, physics) A special Green's function used in modelling superconductivity.


diffuson

(mathematics, physics) A mathematical object relating to diffusive motion, used in the theory of electron transport in disordered systems.


Minkowski space

Minkowski space (plural Minkowski spaces)

Named after Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), a German mathematician and professor.

special relativity
special relativity#English

(mathematics, physics) A four-dimensional real vector space equipped with an inner product of signature (−,+,+,+) or (+,−,−,−), in which special relativity is formulated

ミンコフスキー空間

four-dimensional vector space in which special relativity is formulated


spectrography

(physics, chemistry) The process of using a spectrometer to produce a spectrograph.


intraterrestrial

(ufology) any of a race of sapient beings who live inside the Earth and operate UFOs


arcover

(electricity) The unwanted arcing of electricity from one component to another, caused for example by the presence of contaminants.


nicotinamidase

nicotinamidase (countable and uncountable, plural nicotinamidases)

(biochemistry) A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction nicotinamide + H₂O ⇌ nicotinate + NH₃.


ground loop

(electricity) A (usually unwanted) current that flows between two points that are meant to be at the same potential, but are not.


antisun

antisun (countable and uncountable, plural antisuns)

(astrophysics, countable) A hypothetical sun composed of antimatter.


antiplanet

(astrophysics) A hypothetical planet composed of antimatter.

antiplaneta

a hypothetical planet composed of antimatter


rhodocenium

(organic chemistry) The unipositive cation of rhodocene.


swamp gas

* (hydrogen sulfide): So called because it is often emitted from wetlands such as swamps as a result of anaerobic bacteria, and is responsible for their foul “rotten egg” odor.
* (ufology): An explanation given by then-skeptic J. Allen Hynek for an alleged UFO sighting in Michigan near Lake Huron in 1966.

(ufology, sarcastic) A skeptical explanation that is provided in order to debunk a UFO sighting that a believer regards as ludicrous, illogical or disingenuous.


intragalactic

The morphology-radius and the intragalactic medium cluster observations support the movement of matter from Source galaxies to Sink galaxies.

2006, John C. Hodge, “Scalar potential model of redshift and discrete redshift”, in arXiv:

Generally tidal collisions of satellite galaxy produce stars which escape into the intragalactic space even if the satellite itself is on a bound orbit.

2011, Tilmann Piffl, Mary Williams, Matthias Steinmetz, “Kinematics in galactic tidal tails - A source for Hypervelocity stars?”, in arXiv:

Occurring between two or more points within a galaxy.


unnova

From un- + nova. From being similar to a supernova-process collapse, without the bright novalike outburst.

(astronomy) The collapse of a star which cannot explode in a supernova.


Lorentzian

en-adj

Lorentzian (comparative more Lorentzian, superlative most Lorentzian)

more Lorentzian (comparative)
most Lorentzian (superlative)

Of or relating to Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928), Dutch physicist.


radiation belt

Radiation belts have been found circling all the planets in the Solar System that have a strong magnetic field, namely Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Earth.

2003, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, How It Works: Science and Technology, 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 1899:

(astronomy, physics) A region of high-energy charged particles which partly surrounds a planet or star, trapped by its magnetic field and characterized by intense radiation.


NPSH

(fluid mechanics) Initialism of net positive suction head.


velocity potential

en-noun

velocity potential (plural velocity potentials)

(fluid mechanics, of an inviscid irrotational flow) A scalar potential function relating to the flow’s velocity distribution, defined as ϕ=∇⃑V


PDP

positive displacement pump
positive displacement pump#English

(fluid mechanics) Initialism of positive displacement pump.


GDOR

(biochemistry) Glutathione dehydrogenase (ascorbate)


fibrinase

fibrinase (countable and uncountable, plural fibrinases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme involved in the formation of fibrin.


endodeoxyribonuclease

(biochemistry) An enzyme that is both a deoxyribonuclease and an endonuclease.


antiuniverse

(astrophysics, cosmology) A conjectured universe formed from antimatter.

antiuniverso

a conjectured universe formed from antimatter


oligonucleotidase

oligonucleotidase (countable and uncountable, plural oligonucleotidases)

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of an oligonucleotide, but especially an exoribonuclease derived from Flammulina velutipes.


permethrinase

(biochemistry) pyrethroid hydrolase, an enzyme involved in degradation of pyrethroid pesticides


nucleotidylexotransferase

nucleotidylexotransferase (usually uncountable, plural nucleotidylexotransferases)

(biochemistry) A specialized DNA polymerase expressed in immature, pre-B, pre-T lymphoid cells, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma cells, which adds N-nucleotides to the V, D, and J exons during antibody gene recombination.


nattokinase

From Japanese 納豆菌 (nattōkin, “nattō-bacteria”) + -ase. (It is not a kinase.)

uder

(biochemistry) A serine protease of the subtilisin family, extracted from natto.


desmolase

en-noun

desmolase (countable and uncountable, plural desmolases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the formation or destruction of carbon-carbon bonds within a molecule. These enzymes play a significant role in respiration and fermentation.


diphosphotransferase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of phosphotransferase enzymes that act on pyrophosphate groups.


diisopropylfluorophosphatase

diisopropylfluorophosphatase (countable and uncountable, plural diisopropylfluorophosphatases)

(biochemistry) A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction diisopropyl fluorophosphate + H₂O ⇌ diisopropyl phosphate + fluoride.


deamidase

deamidase (countable and uncountable, plural deamidases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme, carboxypeptidase C.


aerothermal

(physics) Relating to the heating of surfaces due to their contact with the flow of air or other gases


acoustomagnetoelectric

1994 A. D. Margulis et al. The quantum acoustomagnetoelectric effect due to Rayleigh sound waves, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 6 No. 31.

(physics) Pertaining to or involving acoustics, magnetism, and electricity.


Lichtenberg figure

Lichtenberg figure (plural Lichtenberg figures)

Named after the German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

Lichtenberg figures are often seen on the skin of a person who has been struck by lightning.

(electricity) A branching pattern on the surface of an insulator that has been subject to an electric discharge

figura de Lichtenberg

branching patter on an insulator subject to an electric discharge


open feedwater heater

open feedwater heater (plural open feedwater heaters)

(engineering, thermodynamics) A feedwater heater in which the two fluid streams mix together.


closed feedwater heater

closed feedwater heater (plural closed feedwater heaters)

(engineering, thermodynamics) A feedwater heater in which the two fluid streams do not mix.


AFM

AFM (countable and uncountable, plural AFMs)

(atomic force microscopy): → French: AFM

(atomic force microscope): → French: AFM

atomic force microscopy
atomic force microscopy#English

(microscopy, uncountable) Initialism of atomic force microscopy.

atomic force microscope
atomic force microscope#English

(microscopy, countable) Initialism of atomic force microscope.


critically damped

(physics, of a linear dynamic system) Possessing a damping ratio of exactly 1.


damping ratio

(physics, mathematics) A dimensionless measure of the damping in second-order linear dynamic system, appearing as the term ζ in the generalised equation of motion for such a system, ̈q+2ζωₙ̇q+ωₙ²q=F.


amygdalase

amygdalase (countable and uncountable, plural amygdalases)

amygdalin beta-glucosidase
amygdalin beta-glucosidase

(biochemistry) Either of two enzymes: beta-glucosidase and amygdalin beta-glucosidase.


linamarase

(biochemistry) beta-D-glucosidase, an enzyme found in many plants including cassava and the butter bean; an enzyme which breaks down linamarin and produces cyanohydrines and thus hydrogen cyanide


arbutinase

(biochemistry) The enzyme beta-glucosidase.


exocellulase

(biochemistry) Any cellulase that hydrolyse glycoside links at the ends of cellulose chains


tripeptide aminopeptidase

(biochemistry) A zinc enzyme, widely distributed in mammalian tissues, that catalyzes the release of the N-terminal residue from a tripeptide.


alkylglycerone phosphate synthase

alkylglycerone phosphate synthase (plural alkylglycerone phosphate synthases)

alkylglycerone phosphate synthases (plural)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction 1-acyl-glycerone 3-phosphate + a long-chain alcohol ⇌ an alkyl-glycerone 3-phosphate + a long-chain acid anion.


atroxase

Crotalus atrox
Crotalus atrox#Translingual

(biochemistry) An endopeptidase enzyme, found in the venom of the diamondback rattlesnake Crotalus atrox, that catalyzes the cleavage of His⁵-Leu, Ser⁹-His, His¹⁰-Leu, Ala¹⁴-Leu and Tyr¹⁶-Leu of insulin B chain.


multigamma

(physics) Involving multiple gamma rays, or gamma rays of several different energies


cathode ray

(electricity) A ray consisting of a stream of electrons in a vacuum tube that are emitted by the cathode and accelerated towards the anode by an electric field.


arylamidase

arylamidase (countable and uncountable, plural arylamidases)

cytosol alanyl aminopeptidase
cytosol alanyl aminopeptidase

(biochemistry) The enzyme cytosol alanyl aminopeptidase.

arilamidase

the enzyme cytosol alanyl aminopeptidase


aminopolypeptidase

aminopolypeptidase (countable and uncountable, plural aminopolypeptidases)


inulase

inulase (countable and uncountable, plural inulases)


iminodipeptidase

iminodipeptidase (countable and uncountable, plural iminodipeptidases)

(biochemistry) The enzyme Cytosol nonspecific dipeptidase.


imidodipeptidase

imidodipeptidase (countable and uncountable, plural imidodipeptidases)

(biochemistry) The enzyme X-Pro dipeptidase.


isopullulanase

isopullulanase (countable and uncountable, plural isopullulanases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme, pullulan 4-glucanohydrolase, that catalyses the hydrolysis of pullulan to isopanose (6-alpha-maltosylglucose).


isoamylase

isoamylase (countable and uncountable, plural isoamylases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme, glycogen 6-alpha-D-glucanohydrolase, that catalyses the hydrolysis of (1->6)-alpha-D-glucosidic branch linkages in glycogen, amylopectin and their beta-limit dextrins.


inulinase

inulinase (countable and uncountable, plural inulinases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme, 1-beta-D-fructan fructanohydrolase, that catalyses the endohydrolysis of (2->1)-beta-D-fructosidic linkages in inulin.


accidental colour

accidental colour (plural accidental colours)

complementary colour
complementary colour

(optics) A colour depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colours. They are purely subjective sensations of colour which often result from the contemplation of actually coloured bodies.


beauty factory

beauty factory (plural beauty factories)

(physics) A collider-based scientific machine designed to produce a large number (at least 10⁹) of B mesons.


galileon

(physics) A theorised scalar field which is a local modification of gravity in some forms of string theory.


quasielectron

(physics) A form of quasiparticle formed from an electron as it travels through a semiconductor.


quasineutron

(physics) A quasiparticle equivalent to a neutron.


lenslet

The photo plate is traversed so that each lenslet tracks along the dotted line.

1958 August 20, Charles M. Huggins, “An Analytical Evaluation of the Lenticular-Plate Cinemicrograph and the Image-Dissection Process”, in Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, volume 67, number 8, page 523:

Screens are now available with lenticular lenslets.

1992, Mohammad A. Karim, Electro-Optical Displays, page 267:

Typical lenslet integrators in projectors have between 25 and 80 lenslets in each array.

2008, Matthew S. Brennesholtz, Projection Displays:

(physics) A small lens that is part of an array used to generate illumination of uniform intensity


nebenion

(chemistry, physics) Any ion near another one that is involved in transport through a membrane, and that is influencing its transport properties (especially one that assists, rather than counters, the transport of another ion)


mechanoenzyme

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that converts chemical energy into mechanical energy and hence into movement


susceptometer

(physics) A device that is used to measure susceptibility (paramagnetic, diamagnetic, or ferromagnetic)


beampipe

particle accelerator
particle accelerator

(physics) The evacuated chamber through which a beam of particles is accelerated in a particle accelerator


worm drive

A worm and wheel, a gear arrangement consisting of a screw (the worm) whose thread meshes with a gear wheel to turn the direction of drive through a right angle, typically with a large (1:10 to 1:60) speed reduction and similar torque increase.


hysteresivity

(physics) The tendency to undergo hysteresis


Wilson chamber

After Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959), Scottish physicist credited with its invention.


cloud chamber

A particle detector used for detecting ionizing radiation. In its most basic form, it is a sealed environment containing a supersaturated vapor of water or alcohol, in which a mist can be seen where a charged particle interacts with the mixture and it ionizes it.


allochromatic

(chemistry, physics, by extension) Having properties that are due to the presence of impurities, or to radiation damage


premnaspirodiene oxygenase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction (-)-vetispiradiene + 2 NADPH + 2 H⁺ + 2 O₂ ⇌ solavetivone + 2 NADP⁺ + 3 H₂O.


vetispiradiene synthase

vetispiradiene synthase (plural vetispiradiene synthases)

(biochemistry) A lyase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction trans,trans-farnesyl diphosphate ⇌ vetispiradiene + diphosphate.


corona discharge

corona discharge (plural corona discharges)

(electricity) The ionization of air (or any other fluid) surrounding an electrically energized conductor, as a result of a strong electric field.

koronapurkaus

ionization of air surrounding an energized conductor


haplon

(physics) A hypothetical fundamental particle.


antisparticle

(physics) The antiparticle of a sparticle.


rishon

From Hebrew ראשון (rishón, “first; primary”).

(physics) A hypothetical fundamental particle in an early preon model.


quink

Blend of quin- + quark, suggesting a fifth-level building-block of matter, as if quark were derived from Latin quartus (“fourth”).

For instance, quarks now are supposed to have their own elemental constituents: prequarks, maons, quinks, or rishons; so far there are ten kinds of them.

1987, D. G. Garan, Our sciences ruled by human prejudice:

(physics) A hypothetical fundamental particle; a preon.


noncommutative geometry

noncommutative geometry (countable and uncountable, plural noncommutative geometries)

(mathematics, physics) A version of C*-algebra which does away with commutativity, and the geometry which would be generated by/associated with such a modified algebra.


autosoliton

(physics) A dissipative soliton; a stable solitary localized structure that arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization.


antishadow

The calculations prove that the rate of the colour transparency growth with v depends on the contribution of resonances in the inelastic antishadow rescattering.

1995, J.-F. Mathiot, J. Thanh Van Tran, The Heart of the Matter, from Nuclear Interactions to Quark Gluon Dynamics, →ISBN, page 494:

The other uses "antishadows", additional shadow degrees of freedom that can be made antithetic to the existing shadows.

1995, Luciano Reatto, Franca Manghi, Progress in Computational Physics of Matter, →ISBN, page 1995:

Not necessarily, and the reason is the existence of the reflective (antishadow) scattering at the LHC energies.

2009, Donald G. Crabb, Yelena Prok, Matt Poelker, Spin Physics: 18th International Spin Physics Symposium, →ISBN, page 122:

(physics) The dampening of subatomic shadow effects due to rescattering.


notatin

From notatum + -in, named after Penicillium notatum, from which it was extracted.


Purex

Shortening of plutonium uranium extraction.

A chemical method used to purify fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons, based on liquid–liquid extraction ion-exchange.


electrovore

/ɪˈlɛktɹəvɔː(ɹ)/

In Cosmos, Carl Sagan speculates on the existence of extraterrestrial civilisations, which he characterises pretentiously by means of hypothetical summaries such as: "cryogen supercooled electrovores with neutron crystal dense packing and modular starminers ..."

1984 November 8, Peter Forbes, “The silicon solution”, in New Scientist:

! WE DO NOT CONSUME EARTH FOOD. WE ARE ELECTROVORES. IF YOU
! HAVE A SURGE PROTECTOR WE WOULD BE MOST OBLIGED.

1998 October 30, Rollin Thomas, “New Borg Graduate Student.”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet):

There were, Gregory knew, AIs residing within implants in dolphin brains now designed to bridge the linguistic barriers between the species, but those translations had only proven that dolphin brains were as alien to humans as the group minds of the abyssal electrovores inhabiting the under-ice ocean of Enceladus.

2013, Ian Douglas, Deep Space: Star Carrier, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

(science fiction) An organism or entity which feeds on electricity.


charmoniumlike

en-adj

charmoniumlike (comparative more charmoniumlike, superlative most charmoniumlike)

more charmoniumlike (comparative)
most charmoniumlike (superlative)

(physics) Having properties similar to those of charmonium


thermal conductivity

en-noun

thermal conductivity (plural thermal conductivities)

(physics) A measure of the ability of a material to conduct heat, often denoted k, λ, or κ.


ITO

(semiconductor physics) Initialism of indium-tin-oxide (tin-doped indium oxide)


dispiration

(physics) A singularity associated with screw symmetry or a screw displacement, especially in liquid crystals and crystalline polymers; related to dislocation and disclination.


warp drive

(physics, science fiction) A technological device that warps spacetime to enable movement through space in a non-Newtonian manner.


gas dynamics

(physics) The part of fluid dynamics concerning gases


carbamoyl phosphate

An anion, produced from bicarbonate, ammonia and phosphate, that acts as an intermediary metabolite in land animals.


amidoligase

(biochemistry) Any ligase that catalyses the binding of an amido group, but especially one that catalyses the transfer of such a group from glutamine


thermophotovoltaic

(physics) Relating to the production of electricity by heat and/or light


hydrogenlyase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the removal of hydrogen from a compound, but especially one that converts formic acid into carbon dioxide and molecular hydrogen


hyperdeformation

hyperdeformation (countable and uncountable, plural hyperdeformations)

(physics) The deformation of an atomic nucleus to such an extent that it becomes hyperdeformed.


causal set

(mathematics, physics) A set of spacetimes that have a causality relationship


metasurface

Furthermore, by integrating individually addressable arrays of adevices, we demonstrated a new class of spatially varying digital metasurfaces where the local dielectric constant can be reconfigured with a bias voltage.

2015, Osman Balci, Ertugrul Karademir, Semih Cakmakyapan, Nurbek Kakenov, Emre Ozan Polat, Humeyra Caglayan, Ekmel Ozbay, Coskun Kocabas, “Electrically Switchable Metadevices”, in arXiv:

(physics) The surface of a metamaterial.


waveplate

(physics) A thin layer of a birefringent material that is used to introduce a controlled phase shift between the two polarization components of a light wave, thereby altering its polarization


luminiferous aether

(historical, physics) The supposed medium through which light is transmitted


pseudoorthorhombic

(crystallography, obsolete) Having three unequal axes at right angles.


lichenase

(biochemistry) Any glucanase that can hydrolyse lichenins


xyloglucanase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that breaks down xyloglucans.


desublimation

desublimation (countable and uncountable, plural desublimations)

(physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase)


desublimate

en-verb

desublimate (third-person singular simple present desublimates, present participle desublimating, simple past and past participle desublimated)

desublimates (present singular third-person)
desublimating (participle present)
desublimated (participle past)
desublimated (past)

(intransitive, physics) To undergo desublimation; to change directly from a gas to a solid.


desuccinylase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that promotes desuccinylation


sgluon

(physics) The hypothetical superpartner of a gluon.


exoglucanase

(biochemistry) any glucanase / cellulase that is active outside of the organism that produced it


quadripole

(physics) four poles disposed in a square fashion.


bosino

(physics) The fermionic supersymmetric partner of a boson.


formylium

A positively-charged cation with the formula HCO⁺, related to formaldehyde, aldehydes, and formyl.


pseudomomentum

(physics) The property of a wave, analogous to momentum, that determines the force exerted by the wave when it interacts with matter


quasicondensation

(physics) The formation of a quasicondensate


thermofield

(physics) The quantum mechanical field associated with thermal quantum field theory


tautomerase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes a tautomerization reaction


subplanckian

(physics) Concerning lengths or durations less than the Planck length or Planck time.


gravitoweak

(physics) Relating to, or unifying, the gravitational and electroweak forces.


ectropy

en-noun

ectropy (countable and uncountable, plural ectropies)

“This term was suggested by W. V. Quine in discussions following this symposium: Entropy, he pointed out, is Greek for turning in; the opposite term should therefore be the Greek for turning out, namely ectropy. Since the coaction cardioid literally turns in and out of the circle of reference, his short, elegant term is used throughout.”

(thermodynamics) The overall increase in the organization of a system