minicharged

(physics) Having a much smaller electric charge than is normal


photoassociation

en-noun

photoassociation (countable and uncountable, plural photoassociations)

(physics) The association of two atoms, under the influence of laser light, to form an excited diatomic molecule.


superdiffusion

superdiffusion (countable and uncountable, plural superdiffusions)

(physics) A form of diffusion in which the random walk of the molecules contains occasional very long steps (Lévy flights)


superpotential

(physics) One of the parameters of supersymmetry.


unparticle

From un- + particle. See particle physics.

(physics) Used attributively to describe a form of physics that describes matter in terms other than of particles


stellarator

From stellar (“star”) + -ator (“maker”).

(physics) A magnetic device used to confine a plasma, especially one used to sustain nuclear fusion


anhygroscopic

en-adj

anhygroscopic (comparative more anhygroscopic, superlative most anhygroscopic)

more anhygroscopic (comparative)
most anhygroscopic (superlative)

(physical chemistry) (of a substance) Tending to remain dry or anhydrous.


bohr

(physical chemistry, quantum mechanics) Synonym of Bohr radius


timeslip

In any case, neither Morris nor Adeler used a timeslip like Twain.

1996, Rebecca A Umland, The use of Arthurian legend in Hollywood film:

And, although not in a timeslip tale, the horse protagonist of Richard Adams's Traveler (1988) is a creature inherently bound to General Lee...

1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy:

For an instant, she felt as though she were caught in a timeslip — her crew suffering from scurvy, the transporter a significant advantage...

He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper (1948) uses a timeslip to explain a mysterious actual event summarized in the story's prologue...

2003, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, The Cambridge companion to science fiction:

In an apparently fantastic moment, Stephen experiences a timeslip that enables him to secure his own existence.

(science fiction) A phenomenon that causes unexpected time travel.


kallikrein

en-noun

kallikrein (countable and uncountable, plural kallikreins)

From Ancient Greek κᾰλλίκρεᾰς (kallíkreas, “sweetbread, pancreas”) + -in, from κᾰλλί- (kallí-, “beautiful”) + κρέᾰς (kréas, “flesh, meat”).

af

(biochemistry) A hypotensive protease that liberates kinins from blood plasma proteins and is used therapeutically for vasodilation.


converger

From converge + -er. The learner sense was coined by educational theorists David A. Kolb and Roger E. Fry in the 1970s.

(education) A learner who prefers to focus on the practical application of abstract ideas, hence primarily technical subjects.


cuprouranite

The mineral copper uranite or torbernite.


torbernite

en-noun

torbernite (countable and uncountable, plural torbernites)

From Torben + -ite. From Torbern Bergman (1735-1784), Swedish chemist.

(mineralogy) A radioactive green phosphate mineral, isostructural with autunite, found in granites and other uranium-bearing deposits as a secondary mineral.


antigalaxy

(astrophysics) A conjectured type of galaxy formed from antimatter.

antigaláxia

a conjectured type of galaxy formed from antimatter


antistar

(astrophysics) A conjectured type of star formed from antimatter.

αντιάστρο

a conjectured type of star formed from antimatter


creatine kinase

creatine kinase (plural creatine kinases)

adenosine triphosphate
adenosine triphosphate

adenosine diphosphate
adenosine diphosphate

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the phosphorylation of creatine and uses adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to create phosphocreatine and adenosine diphosphate (ADP).


pseudoplastic

en-adj

pseudoplastic (comparative more pseudoplastic, superlative most pseudoplastic)

more pseudoplastic (comparative)
most pseudoplastic (superlative)

(physics) Whose viscosity decreases as shear stress increases (as with paint and ketchup, for example).


electric car

internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine

A car that uses electric motors and motor controllers instead of an internal combustion engine, the power coming from rechargeable batteries.


sialyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of sialic acid moieties (especially to certain glycolipids)


slapdown

(geology, physics, seismology) The impact of a layer of earth falling after having been lifted by an explosion or an earthquake or similar large-scale disturbance.


hyperstaticity

(physics) The condition of being hyperstatic


optomechanics

(optics, mechanics) The design and manufacture of precision mechanical components of optical devices


supermolecule

(physics, chemistry) A transitory, quantum-mechanical entity formed when two molecules react

(physics, chemistry) A molecule with superatom components, where each of the superatom components act as single atoms in the molecule


trip switch

A device that deactivates an electrical circuit under certain conditions, often for safety reasons


lipoprotein lipase

en-noun

lipoprotein lipase (plural lipoprotein lipases)

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a lipoprotein


magnino

(physics, astronomy) An ultralight fermionic species proposed to have condensed into a ferromagnetic state in the early universe


unit cell

The first task for a crystallographer is to establish the shape of the unit cell.

1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:

(crystallography) The smallest repeating structure (parallelepiped) of atoms within a crystal, from which the structure of the complete crystal can be inferred.


isograv

isograv (countable and uncountable, plural isogravs)

Based on values obtained by Eqns (1a) and (1c), we computed for VI, QI and VI\QI-ratio one coefficient of variation (CV) accounting for total heterogeneity (CV total) and one accounting for variation within isogravitational planes (CV isograv).

1997 March, M.N. Melsom, J. Kramer-Johansen, T. Flatebø, C. Müller, G. Nicolaysen, “Distribution of pulmonary ventilation and perfusion measured simultaneously in awake goats”, in Acta Physiologica Scandinavica, volume 159, number 3:

The magnetic anomaly rasters (bouguerbougure, isograv and magnetic) were obtained from the USGS as was the thermal maturity point data.

2014 February 19, Jeffrey S. Evans, Joseph M. Kiesecker, “Shale gas, wind and water: Assessing the potential cumulative impacts of energy development on ecosystem services within the Marcellus play”, in PLoS One:

Isostatic residual anomaly, isograv: Isostatic residual anomaly data removes the long-wavelength part of the gravity field to correct for topographic load and provide for surface gravity mapping.

2017 March, Lara M Juliusson, Kevin E Doherty, “Oil and gas development exposure and conservation scenarios for Greater sage-grouse”, in Applied Geography, volume 80:

(physics) Abbreviation of isostatic residual (gravity) anomaly.


supergraph

(physics) A Feynman diagram that calculates scattering amplitudes in a supersymmetric theory using the advantages of the superspace formalism.


aldolase

(biochemistry) An enzyme, present in some tissue, that catalyses the conversion of phosphates of fructose to those of glyceraldehyde and dihydroxyacetone


elastodynamics

(physics) The study of waves in an elastic material.


flow field

(physics) The distribution of the density and velocity of a fluid over space and time


thermoelasticity

thermoelasticity (usually uncountable, plural thermoelasticities)

(physics) The study of the relationship between the elastic properties of a material and its temperature, or between its thermal conductivity and its stresses


diphosphatase

(biochemistry, especially in combination) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of the diphosphate of a specific nucleotide or other biochemical compound


curium bromide

(inorganic chemistry) The curium salt of hydrobromic acid, CmBr₃


bounceless

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(electrical engineering) That does not require debouncing.


Majorana particle

Majorana particle (plural Majorana particles)

After Ettore Majorana (1906–1938?), Italian theoretical physicist.

(physics) A fermion that is its own antiparticle and thus capable of self-annihilation.


antisquark

(physics) The proposed antiparticle of a squark.


IC lightning

Intracloud lightning; lightning which occurs within a cloud, resulting in the discharge of electricity between regions of the cloud. (Often, but not always, this takes the form of sheet lightning.)


trimethyltransferase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyses the transfer of three methyl groups


lightning mapper

lightning mapper (plural lightning mappers)

(meteorology) A system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.

(instrumentation) The component of such a system that gathers the required data, comprising an interconnected network of electric field change sensors that measure the time of arrival of electric field pulses from the strokes in a lightning flash. Two-dimensional maps require three such sensors, and three-dimensional maps require four.


debunching

/diːˈbʊntʃɪŋɡ/

(physics) The tendency of a beam of electrons (or other charged particles) to disperse because of mutual repulsion.


diocotron instability

diocotron instability (plural diocotron instabilities)

(physics) A plasma instability created by two sheets of charge slipping past each other, in which energy is dissipated in the form of two surface waves propagating in opposite directions, one flowing over the other.


biraphid

(microscopy) Having a raphe at each of both valves; notably said of diatoms.


simple pendulum

simple pendulum (plural simple pendulums)

(physics) A hypothetical pendulum consisting of a weight suspended by a weightless string.


diffusibility

diffusibility (countable and uncountable, plural diffusibilities)

(physics, of a gas or other fluid) A measure of the speed of diffusion.


qubyte

Blend of quantum + byte, generalizing the prefix qu-, after qubit.

(quantum computing) A quantum byte, one composed of eight qubits.


bubble chamber

These discoveries, along with others produced by bubble chambers at Argonne, Brookhaven, and CERN, supported the SU(3) particle classification.

1998, Robert Bud, Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, page 100:

A vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it.


electroresistance

(physics) the change in electrical resistance with current


strongly symmetric matter

(physics) A predicted very high energy state of matter, present in the very early universe for perhaps 10⁻³⁶ seconds after the Big Bang, when strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravitational forces were undistinguished.


weakly symmetric matter

electromagnetic force
electromagnetic force

(physics) A predicted very high-energy state of matter, present in the very early universe for perhaps 10⁻¹² seconds after the Big Bang, when strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces were undistinguished.


cataloreactant

(chemistry) A catalytic reactant that is regenerated at the end of a reaction


antimetric

A Butterworth filter with an odd number of elements is symmetric while one with an even number of elements is antimetric.

(electrical engineering) The converse of symmetric in electrical network theory, especially filter theory. A network where the input and output image impedances are the dual, or inverse, of each other as opposed to symmetric networks where they are equal.

antimétrico

the converse of symmetric in electrical network theory


photolyte

(chemistry) Any substance that is decomposed by photolysis


anticolour

(physics) The property of antiquarks equivalent to that of colour in quarks.

anticolore

the property of antiquarks equivalent to that of colour in quarks


aerophysics

(physics) The physics of the design and construction of aerodynamic devices


amylopsin

(biochemistry) A pancreatic form of amylase.


anaphoresis

From ana- + -phoresis or from Ancient Greek ἀναφορέω (anaphoréō).

(physics) The movement of electrically charged particles towards an anode.


interpenetrative

en-adj

interpenetrative (comparative more interpenetrative, superlative most interpenetrative)

more interpenetrative (comparative)
most interpenetrative (superlative)

(mathematics, physics) Mutually penetrative (overlapping each other in space)


tribometry

(physics, engineering) The measurement of friction on a surface, as carried out with a tribometer.


mass spectrograph

en-noun

mass spectrograph (plural mass spectrographs)

(physics, analytical chemistry) A mass spectrometer


CBR

cosmic background radiation
cosmic background radiation#English

(astrophysics) Initialism of cosmic background radiation.


SPR

SPR (countable and uncountable, plural SPRs)

(spectroscopy) Initialism of surface plasmon resonance.


delta ray

(physics) An electron ejected by recoil when a rapidly moving alpha particle or other charged particle passes through matter.

(physics) A secondary ionizing particle ejected by recoil when a primary particle passes through matter.


pseudocholinesterase

pseudocholinesterase (countable and uncountable, plural pseudocholinesterases)

(biochemistry) One of the two types of cholinesterase (the other being acetylcholinesterase), found primarily in the liver where it hydrolyses butyrylcholine.


neutron flux

(physics) The number of neutrons passing through something, per unit area per unit time.


geoelectricity

(physics) The natural electric fields and electric currents of the Earth.

Maan sähkökenttä

the natural electric fields and electric currents of the Earth


thermal contact

When objects are brought into thermal contact, the macroscopic properties may initially change but after some time no further changes will occur.

2004, Bruno Linder, chapter 2, in Thermodynamics and Introductory Statistical Mechanics, →ISBN, page 13:

(thermodynamics) A state in which two or more systems can exchange thermal energy.


racemase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having only one center of asymmetry.


Planckian

(physics) Relating to the Planck length or Planck time.


zoomy

en-adj

zoomy (comparative zoomier, superlative zoomiest)

zoomier (comparative)
zoomiest (superlative)

zoomy but faded paint jobs

In our recent visits to the Frankfurt and Tokyo auto shows, we saw the zoomy shapes we expect at major shows.

Does the zoomy new look of the TT [automobile] equate with a corresponding improvement in performance?

2007, Car and Driver, volume 52, page 59:

(mechanics, informal) sleek, speedy, streamlined


audio frequency

en-noun

audio frequency (plural audio frequencies)

A frequency or range of frequencies of sound waves that are audible.


chemical substance

chemical substance (plural chemical substances)

(physics, chemistry) A material with a specific chemical composition.


force of nature

force of nature (plural forces of nature)


proper acceleration

proper acceleration (plural proper accelerations)

(physics) The acceleration felt by an object, as opposed to the coordinate acceleration. For example the acceleration of an object at the surface of the Earth is 9.81 m/s² upwards, but has no coordinate acceleration. The proper acceleration of an object is Lorentz invariant.


Lorentz invariant

Lorentz invariant (plural Lorentz invariants)

Lorentz transformation
Lorentz transformation

(mathematics, relativity) A quantity that does not change due to a Lorentz transformation; a quantity that is independent of the inertial frame.


Noether's theorem

(physics) A theorem, proven by Emmy Noether in 1915 and published in 1918, stating that any differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law.


biot

en:Jean-Baptiste Biot
en:biot (disambiguation)

From French Biot; Named after Jean-Baptiste Biot.


quasicondensate

(physics) A material that has some, but not all, characteristics of a condensate


retroreflection

retroreflection (countable and uncountable, plural retroreflections)

(physics) reflection in which the reflected rays are parallel to the incident rays


wavepacket

(physics) Alternative spelling of wave packet


beamtime

beamtime (usually uncountable, plural beamtimes)

(physics) The amount of time allocated to a researcher for use of a beam of particles from a particular source.


formamidase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of formylkynurenine to kynurenine and formate during the metabolism of tryptophan


formyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any transferase that catalyses the transfer of a formyl group


hadronization

hadronization (usually uncountable, plural hadronizations)

(physics) The formation of hadrons from free quarks and gluons.


photomagnetization

(physics) magnetization induced by light


gyrase

gyrase (countable and uncountable, plural gyrases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that supercoils DNA.


spaser

Acronym for "surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"; compare laser. The phenomenon was first described by Bergman and Stockman in 2003, and the first such device was announced in 2009.

(physics) The nanoplasmonic counterpart of a laser; a nanoscale source of optical fields with potential uses in nanoscale lithography, probing and microscopy.


unsubbed

Samples often are lost from unsubbed slides, particularly during the hybridization step.

1995, Larry J. Kricka, Nonisotopic Probing, Blotting, and Sequencing, page 175:

Add 50 mg of gelatin (Fisher Scientific) per liter of H₂O if using unsubbed slides.

2006, David L. Spector, Robert D. Goldman, Basic Methods in Microscopy: Protocols and Concepts from Cells: A Laboratory Manual, page 115:

(microscopy) Not layered with a coating that will help fix the sample in place.


aconitase

aconitase (countable and uncountable, plural aconitases)

The enzyme system bringing about the reversible hydration of cisaconitic acid has been shown to be different from fumarase and termed "aconitase".

1939 June 1, William Arthur Johnson, “Aconitase”, in Biochemical Journal, volume 33, number 6, page 1046:

These are: aconitase, isocitric dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutaric dehydrogenase, succinic dehydrogenase, fumarase, malic dehydrogenase, DPHN-oxidase, and cytochrome oxidase.

1959, Virginia Commission of Fisheries, Report of the Commission of Fisheries of Virginia, page 54:

The best-characterized member of iron-sulfur isomerases is mitochondrial aconitase.

2000, Louis J. Ignarro, Nitric Oxide: Biology and Pathobiology, page 301:

tricarboxylic acid cycle
tricarboxylic acid cycle

(biochemistry) Aconitate hydratase, an enzyme that catalyses the stereospecific isomerization of citrate to isocitrate via cis-aconitate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle.


paleocontact

ancient astronauts
ancient astronauts#English

The theory that intelligent extraterrestrial beings (sometimes called ancient astronauts) visited Earth in the distant past, influencing human culture, technology, or religion.


aspartylglucosaminidase

A human gene and amidohydrolase enzyme involved in the catabolism of N-linked oligosaccharides of glycoproteins.


organotechnetium

(organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon-to-technetium bond.


macroseeding

Repeated cycles of macroseeding were required to obtain crystals of sufficient size for data collection[…].

1998 March 6, Lance Stewart et al., “A Model for the Mechanism of Human Topoisomerase I”, in Science, volume 279, number 5356, →DOI, pages 1534–1541:

(biochemistry, macromolecular crystallography) The seeding of crystallization using an intact crystal that has already been grown


chrononaut

From chrono- + -naut, modelled on astronaut and/or cosmonaut.

The honour of the final great mistake will go to David Powers, Scientist Chrononaut.

1972, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, volume 46, page 119:

The conventional view of time travel, however, has the ‘chrononauts’ travelling backwards and forwards in time. But in a more restricted sense we are all chrononauts, on a one-way fixed-speed journey into the future.

1999, John Guy Porter, Patrick Moore, Yearbook of Astronomy, page 146:

This tiny accident, because of the multiplicative effect of unforeseeable circumstances, results in an important alteration in the present time when the chrononauts return — the language is spoken differently and a different President of the United States has been elected.

2002, José Luis Sanz, Starring T. Rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, page 62:

(science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.


ramscoop

(science fiction) A proposed space travel technology using enormous electromagnetic fields as a scoop to collect and compress hydrogen and trigger thermonuclear fusion, thus powering the vessel.


protoporphyrinogen oxidase

protoporphyrinogen IX
protoporphyrinogen IX

(biochemistry) An enzyme responsible for the seventh step in heme production, removing hydrogen atoms from protoporphyrinogen IX to form protoporphyrin IX.


organouranium

(organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon-to-uranium bond.


uranocene

uranocene (countable and uncountable, plural uranocenes)

(organic chemistry) The actinocene cyclooctatetraenide with chemical formula U(C₈H₈)₂, one of the first organouranium compounds to be synthesized.


ferrochelatase

ferrochelatase (countable and uncountable, plural ferrochelatases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme, localized to the mitochondrion, that catalyses the terminal (eighth) step in the biosynthesis of heme, converting protoporphyrin IX into heme


nanoplasmonics

(physics) plasmonics involving nanofabricated systems


outcoupling

light-emitting diode
light-emitting diode

(physics) The escape of photons from a light-emitting diode after being generated


pseudospin

(physics) A quantum degree of freedom analogous to spin


sextupole

(physics) a distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to three dipoles that point in different directions

(physics) a magnet with three north poles and three south poles, used to focus or contain a beam of particles


subdiffusion

(physics) The tendency of particles in a fluid not to diffuse due to random trapping


apyrase

(biochemistry) Any of a family of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of ATP, releasing phosphate and available energy

apirase

any of a family of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of ATP


undulator

(physics) A periodic structure of dipole magnets that generates a low-energy collimated beam of radiation.


tensegrity

tensegrity (countable and uncountable, plural tensegrities)

Coined by Buckminster Fuller, blend of tensional + integrity.

(architecture, physics) tensional integrity (of a structure)


chondroitinase

Animals that were given the treatment produced an enzyme called chondroitinase which breaks down scar tissue and allows the broken nerves to reconnect with each other.

(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans.


glycohydrolase

glycohydrolase (countable and uncountable, plural glycohydrolases)

(biochemistry) Any of many enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of glycosides


isothiazolidinium

(organic chemistry, especially in combination) A protonated cation formed from isothiazolidine.


thermolysin

thermolysin (countable and uncountable, plural thermolysins)

(biochemistry) A thermostable neutral metalloproteinase enzyme produced by the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus thermoproteolyticus.


fermionization

fermionization (usually uncountable, plural fermionizations)

Remarkably it is shown that the twisted sector boundary state can be written as the untwisted sector boundary state of another fields on the world sheet at the critical radius by performing bosonizations and fermionizations.

2000 July 12, Michihiro Naka, “Boundary state description of tachyon condensation”, in Journal of High Energy Physics:

Within the fermionization scheme considered the explicit form of these terms can be easily derived for free and periodic boundary conditions in a manner similar to that used in [15,18] for the model with nearest-neighbor interaction.

2012, Alexandr A. Ovchinnikov, Electron-Electron Correlation Effects in Low-Dimensional Conductors and Superconductors:

Although the cloud size and the momentum distribution reveal the many-body nature of the gas, they only provide indirect evidence for the impenetrability or the fermionization of the Bose gas.

2012, Kathy Levin, Ultracold Bosonic and Fermionic Gases, page 103:

(physics) The theoretical treatment of a system as one of fermions.


deiodinase

deiodinase (countable and uncountable, plural deiodinases)

(biochemistry) iodide peroxidase, an enzyme that is involved in the activation or deactivation of thyroid hormones


thoron

From Thor + -on. From thorium, itself from Thor.

(physics) Radon-220 (²²⁰₈₆Rn; symbol Tn), an isotope of radon


HMXB

high-mass X-ray binary
high-mass X-ray binary#English

(astronomy) Initialism of high-mass X-ray binary: a binary star system that is strong in X-rays, and in which the normal stellar component is a massive star, and the compact X-ray-emitting component is a neutron star, black hole, or white dwarf.


LMXB

(astronomy) Initialism of low-mass X-ray binary: a binary star system that is strong in X-rays, and in which the normal stellar component is a main-sequence star, degenerate dwarf, or evolved star from the main sequence, and the compact X-ray emitting component is a neutron star, black hole, or white dwarf


IMXB

(astronomy) Initialism of intermediate-mass X-ray binary: a binary star system that is strong in X-rays, and in which the compact X-ray emitting component is a neutron star, black hole, or white dwarf.


worldsheet

(physics) A two-dimensional manifold which describes the embedding of a string in spacetime, a direct generalization of the worldline of a particle in special and general relativity.


twistor

Holonym: amplituhedron

Meronym: spinor

(mathematics, physics) Any of the complex-valued coordinates in twistor theory, which maps the geometric objects of conventional 3+1 space-time into geometric objects in a four-dimensional space, twistor space, with metric signature (2,2), a proposed path to a theory of quantum gravity.


cymatics

Coined by Hans Jenny from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “wave”) + -ics.

A 25-minute color film and 50 black-and-white single frames were drawn from Dr. Hans Jenny’s experiments with cymatics — the structure and dynamics of waves and vibrations.

1966, Photographic Applications in Science and Technology, I-II, page 83:

(physics) The study of visible effects of sound and vibration.


nonrotating

(engineering, astrophysics) That does not rotate.


hydrophobization

(chemistry, physics) The act or process of making something hydrophobic, such as the surface of a particle


arylesterase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of an aryl ester

arilesterase

any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of an aryl ester


isoentrope

(physics) A region having equal entropy throughout, or a curve joining points of equal entropy.


magnetocaloric

(physics) Describing a reversible change in temperature of a material as a result of a change in magnetic field.


metamagnetism

(physics) Any of several effects in which a small change in an applied magnetic field causes a sharp change in magnetization


pyrophosphorylase

(biochemistry) Any pyrophosphate transferase


pontin

(biochemistry) An ATPase that is a component of telomerase


superlubricity

(physics) A regime of motion in which friction vanishes or very nearly vanishes.


rephase

en-verb

rephase (third-person singular simple present rephases, present participle rephasing, simple past and past participle rephased)

rephases (present singular third-person)
rephasing (participle present)
rephased (participle past)
rephased (past)


vergence

en-noun

vergence (countable and uncountable, plural vergences)

From verge (“tend, incline”, from Latin vergere) + -ence, synonym of earlier (1660s) vergency (the equivalent of French vergence). Coined as a technical term in ophthalmology, as a hyperonym of convergence and divergence, in 1902. The sense of the numeric quantity in geometric optics was introduced, from use of the term in physiological optics, in the 1920s.

af

from Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">vergere</i>

a special vertex trial case computed for an object vergence of 4.00.

1921, The Optician and Scientific Instrument Maker, volume 62, page 1

1947 Benjamin King Johnson, Optics and Optical Instruments: An Introduction with Special Reference to Practical Applications, Courier Corporation (1960 [1947]), p. 152.
"Ample movement between the source and condenser should be available in order to allow for a variation in the vergence of the light leaving the condenser"

(optics) A measure of convergence or divergence of rays.


anticharm

en-adj

anticharm (comparative more anticharm, superlative most anticharm)

more anticharm (comparative)
most anticharm (superlative)

Similarly, any charm quarks produced in the collision have many more partners to choose from; they don't have to run away with an anticharm partner, which causes the number of J/psi mesons to drop. "

1999 August 20, David Voss, “PHYSICS:Making the Stuff of the Big Bang”, in Science, volume 285, number 5431, →DOI, pages 1194–1197:

(physics) Of or pertaining to an anti-charm quark.


sulfiredoxin

en-noun

sulfiredoxin (countable and uncountable, plural sulfiredoxins)

(biochemistry) An oxidoreductase enzyme involved in antioxidant metabolism


organopolonium

(organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to polonium bond.


organothorium

(organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to thorium bond.


organoplutonium

(organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to plutonium bond.


cryohydrate

water of crystallization
water of crystallization

(physical chemistry) Any salt that forms crystals containing water of crystallization only at low temperatures


bianisotropy

(physics) An inhomogenous, asymmetric form of anisotropy.


gyrotropy

electromagnetic radiation
electromagnetic radiation

(physics) The helical movement of electromagnetic radiation through a chiral material


memcapacitance

(physics) The capacitance of a memcapacitor.


memcapacitor

(physics) A capacitor with memory, whose capacitance depends on past input.


unquench

en-verb

unquench (third-person singular simple present unquenches, present participle unquenching, simple past and past participle unquenched)

unquenches (present singular third-person)
unquenching (participle present)
unquenched (participle past)
unquenched (past)

(physics) To reverse the effects of a previous quenching operation


electrocoalescence

(physics) The coalescence of droplets under the influence of a variable electric field


dispase

(biochemistry) A protease that cleaves fibronectin and collagen


helitron

(physics) A tunable form of microwave oscillator.


immunophilin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of isomerases active in the immune system.


amperometry

(physical chemistry) An analytical technique that involves the continuous measurement of electric current during a reaction or titration


plasma wakefield acceleration

en-noun

plasma wakefield acceleration (uncountable)

(physics) A method of high-gradient particle acceleration which uses the longitudinal electric field of plasma wakefield excited by a laser pulse or bunch of relativistic charged particles.

プラズマ航跡場加速

ぷらずまこうせきばかそく


Fukushima

Borrowed from Japanese 福島(ふくしま) (Fukushima).

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster following a tsunami in 2011.


jellyfish baby

jellyfish baby (plural jellyfish babies)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-jellyfish baby.wav

A stillborn infant with transparent skin and without bones, resulting from radiation poisoning.


adiabat

(physics) The curve on a graph of pressure and temperature which gives the adiabatic heating or cooling of a gas.


electrokinetics

(physics) the electrodynamics of electrical circuits


electroacoustics

(physics) The science of the interaction and interconversion of electric and acoustic phenomena.

électroacoustique

the science of the interaction and interconversion of electric and acoustic phenomena


electrobiology

(physics, biology) The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.

电生物学

study of the production of electricity by organisms


electrovalency

(physics) The net electric charge on an ion.


counterelectromotive

(physics) Describing the force of the voltage in an inductive circuit.

controelettromotrice

describing the force of the voltage in an inductive circuit


flavoenzyme

(biochemistry) Any oxidoreductase that requires FAD (flavin adenine dinucleotide) as a prosthetic group that functions in electron transfers


multihadronic

en-adj

multihadronic (comparative more multihadronic, superlative most multihadronic)

more multihadronic (comparative)
most multihadronic (superlative)


electrogravitics

a proposed science involving the use of an electric field to charge (or polarize) an object so as to counteract the effects of gravity.


equiconcave

equiconcave (comparative more equiconcave, superlative most equiconcave)

more equiconcave (comparative)
most equiconcave (superlative)

In an equiconcave lens the foci are virtual and are crossed over; thus, the lens in fig. 25A is equiconcave, the focus F, instead of being measured from A to the right hand, must be measured to the left hand; consequently, § of the thickness must be subtracted from the focal length in order to determine the distance of F from the surface of the lens.

1901, William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger, The Microscope and Its Revelations, page 22:

In an equiconcave lens, the back surface would have a positive radius of curvature.

2022 October 4, Samantha Strong, Introduction to Visual Optics, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 202:

A thin equiconvex lens of radius of curvature R made of material of refractive index μ₁ is kept coaxially, in contact with an equiconcave lens of the same radius of curvature and refractive index μ₂ (> μ₁).

2024, YCT Expert Team, Physics Unsolved Papers, Youth Competition Times, page 215:

(optics, of a lens) Having surfaces with the same concave radius of curvature.


electrino

Coined by Humphrey Maris in 2000, from electron + -ino.

Coordinate term: positrino

(physics) A hypothetical particle resulting from the breakup of an electron.


asparaginase

en-noun

asparaginase (countable and uncountable, plural asparaginases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of asparagine to aspartic acid, used in chemotherapy.

asparaginaza

an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of asparagine to aspartic acid


bectumomab

non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

A monoclonal antibody used to detect non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.


besilesomab

A mouse monoclonal antibody used to detect inflammatory lesions and metastases.


vacuum gauge

The usual comprehensive gauges were available, including the pyrometer, which was to show some 350 deg C. throughout the journey, and the smokebox vacuum gauge, which is closely observed when working the engine heavily.

1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 150:

(physics) An instrument that is used to measure very low pressures of gases.


BBN

BBN (countable and uncountable, plural BBNs)

Big Bang nucleosynthesis
w:Big Bang nucleosynthesis

(astronomy, physics) Initialism of Big Bang nucleosynthesis.


periodic structure

periodic structure (plural periodic structures)

(physics) A structure made of bays coupled through one or more coordinates.


halo nucleus

(nuclear physics) An atomic nucleus whose radius is appreciably larger than that predicted by the liquid drop model (wherein the nucleus is assumed to be a sphere of constant density).


elve

From e(mission of) l(ight and) v(ery low-frequency perturbations from) e(lectromagnetic pulse sources), and to avoid clashing with the acronym ELF (extremely low frequency) used in the same field of science.

It is likely that the first elve was recorded with the Space Shuttle low-light camera.

2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges, page 37:

(astronomy, meteorology) A rapidly expanding disk-shaped region of red luminosity in the ionosphere, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occurs high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity.


multijet

(physics) Of or pertaining to multiple jets (narrow cones of particles).


mesothorium

From meso- + thorium. Probably so-called because these two isotopes (²²⁸Ra and ²²⁸Ac) are, in the decay chain, intermediate between normal thorium (²³²Th) and radiothorium (²²⁸Th).

(physics) Certain members of the decay chain of thorium, mainly isotopes of radium and actinium


mesotron

From meso- + -tron. Coined by American physicists Carl Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer in 1938 in a letter to Nature titled "Mesotron (Intermediate Particle) as a Name for the New Particles of Intermediate Mass".


Tyndall blue

After John Tyndall, a 19th-century British physicist who first explained the effect and the resulting color.

The bluish polarized light scattered in the Tyndall effect.


earthspace

The volume of space dominated by Earth's gravity.


ray of light

(physics) A path a photon or a group of photons takes through space, visible as a column of light.


orbiton

Two such quasi-particles had been seen before, but a team reporting in Nature has now confirmed a third: the orbiton.

(physics) A quasiparticle, corresponding to the orbital energy of an electron, which can result from an electron apparently ‘splitting’ under certain conditions.


spinon

(physics) One of three kinds of quasiparticle (the others being the holon and orbiton) that electrons in solids are able to split into during the process of spin–charge separation, when extremely tightly confined at temperatures close to absolute zero.


radio galaxy

(astronomy) Type of galaxy that is very luminous at radio wavelengths.


gamma radiation

en-noun

gamma radiation (usually uncountable, plural gamma radiations)

Punished with UV and gamma radiation from the Class F Star it orbits, Utha is no one's first choice for a planet to land on.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Utha:

(physics) electromagnetic radiation consisting of gamma rays


heavy ion

(nuclear physics) An ionized atom that is usually heavier than helium.


leviton

(physics) the collective excitation of a single electron within an electrical conductor such as a metal or graphene


invertin

(obsolete, biochemistry) Any enzyme that converts a sugar to an invert sugar; saccharase.


vorton

(physics) A hypothetical circular cosmic string loop stabilized by the angular momentum of the charge and current trapped on the string.


sublumic

slower than light; having a speed less than that of light.


superlumic

faster-than-light; having a speed greater than light.


lumic

Having the speed of light or a similar speed.


subluminal

en-adj

subluminal (comparative more subluminal, superlative most subluminal)

more subluminal (comparative)
most subluminal (superlative)

slower than light; having a speed less than light.


thermophoresis

(physics) The movement of molecules in a temperature gradient


studtite

From Studt + -ite.
From Franz Edward Studt, English prospector and geologist.

(mineralogy) A secondary uranium mineral containing peroxide formed by the alpha-radiolysis of water during formation; it occurs as white yellow needlelike crystals often in acicular sprays.


bead lightning

A relatively rare form of cloud-to-ground lightning which appears to break up into a string of short, bright sections, and lasts longer than the usual discharge channel.


protein kinase

These findings, together with previous evidence that heparin stimulates Tau phosphorylation by protein kinases, have been used to argue that sulfated glycosaminoglycans may be a critical factor in the formation of the neurofibrillary tangles.

2009, Ajit Varki with Hudson H. Freeze, “Glycans in Acquired Human Diseases”, in Varki, A., et al., editor, Essentials of Glycobiology, 2nd edition, CSH Press, →ISBN, retrieved 2009-12-05:

(biochemistry) a kinase whose substrate is a protein


LM

light microscope
light microscope#English

light microscopy
light microscopy#English

(microscopy) Abbreviation of light microscope/light microscopy.


SPS

(electricity) Initialism of supplementary power system/supply.

(electricity) Initialism of standby power system/supply.

(electricity) Initialism of smart power system/supply.

(electricity) Initialism of stand-alone power system/supply.

Initialism of standalone photovoltaic system/supply.

(electricity) Initialism of solar power station.

(aerospace) Initialism of solar power satellite.

Initialism of solar power station.
Initialism of solar power satellite.


chargeless

a chargeless particle


quindecuplet

From quindecuple (“times fifteen; composed of 15 parts”) + -et (“forming diminutives”), from Latin quindecim (“fifteen”) + -plus (“-times, -fold”).

suffix

Exercise 11.10. Calculate the multiplicities of the weights in the octet of 𝒮𝒰(3) and in the quindecuplet of 𝒮𝒰(4) according to (11.4.60).

1988, Wolfgang Ludwig, Claus Falter, Symmetries in Physics: Group Theory Applied to Physical Problems, 2nd edition, Springer–Verlag, →ISBN, page 310, →ISBN:

(rare, particle physics) A multiplet of fifteen subatomic particles.


coannihilation

(physics) The mutual annihilation of a pair of colliding particles


backreaction

(physics) The reaction, as a result of Newton's third law, back from a radiating gravitational wave.


antialigned

en-adj

antialigned (comparative more antialigned, superlative most antialigned)

more antialigned (comparative)
most antialigned (superlative)

(physics) Aligned in an opposite direction (especially of a magnetic domain).


deleptonization

(physics, astronomy) The loss of leptons from a supernova or rotating protoneutron star


dihole

(physics) Either of a pair of oppositely-charged holes that carry a dipole moment


antivortex

(physics) A vortex that rotates in an opposite direction to another that it is paired with

antivórtice

a vortex that rotates in an opposite direction to another that it is paired with


intraband

(physics) Describing a property within a band (magnetic, spectral etc)


monolayerlike

monolayerlike (comparative more monolayerlike, superlative most monolayerlike)

more monolayerlike (comparative)
most monolayerlike (superlative)

(chemistry, physics) Having the characteristics of a monolayer


interband

(physics) Describing a region between bands (magnetic, spectral etc)


longward

longward (comparative more longward, superlative most longward)

more longward (comparative)
most longward (superlative)

The profiles of both lines are extremely asymmetrical, which we have found to be caused by very broad diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in the longward wing of H#x5C;beta and the shortward wing of H#x5C;alpha.

2015, Nolan R. Walborn, Hugues Sana, Christopher J. Evans, William D. Taylor, Elena Sabbi, Rodolfo H. Barbá, Nidia I. Morrell, Jesús Maíz Apellániz, Alfredo Sota, Philip L. Dufton, Catherine M. McEvoy, J. Simon Clark, Nevena Markova, Krzysztof Ulaczyk, “Broad Balmer Wings in BA Hyper/Supergiants Distorted by Diffuse Interstellar Bands: Five Examples in the 30 Doradus Region from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey”, in arXiv:

the H₂S band is centered slightly longward of the feature in the Quaoar spectrum.

(physics, astronomy) Near, or oriented toward, the longer wavelengths of a range.


bilayerlike

bilayerlike (comparative more bilayerlike, superlative most bilayerlike)

more bilayerlike (comparative)
most bilayerlike (superlative)

(physical chemistry, physics) Having some characteristics of a bilayer


magnetoelectricity

(physics) electricity produced magnetically


magnetoelectric

(physics) Of or pertaining to magnetoelectricity.


pseudorapidity

en-noun

pseudorapidity (countable and uncountable, plural pseudorapidities)

(physics) A measure of the velocity of a particle relative to that of a beam of particles, approximated by a function of its angle.


quasinormal

en-adj

quasinormal (comparative more quasinormal, superlative most quasinormal)

more quasinormal (comparative)
most quasinormal (superlative)

(physics) Describing an oscillation whose amplification decreases exponentially


deconfined

deconfined (comparative more deconfined, superlative most deconfined)

more deconfined (comparative)
most deconfined (superlative)

(physics) Describing a system of quarks and gluons that are free to move relatively independently


topcolor

fundamental particle
fundamental particle

(physics) A proposed model of fundamental particle physics involving condensation between top quarks and antitop quarks


subgrid

(mathematics, physics) Describing any parameter measured on a scale smaller than the grid used to plot it


Einstein's constant

Einstein field equation
Einstein field equation

(physics) The coupling constant appearing in the Einstein field equation.


dihedral angle

Any two dihedral angles are to one another as the angles contained by perpendiculars drawn as in the last proposition.

1830, Pierce Morton, Geometry, Plane, Solid and Spherical, London: Baldwin and Cradock, page 136:

The remaining dihedral angles are the source of essentially all the interesting variability in protein conformation.

1981, Jane S. Richardson, “The Anatomy and Taxonomy of Protein Structure”, in C. B. Afinson, John T. Edsall, Frederic M. Richards, editors, Advances in Protein Chemistry, volume 34, page 173:

The significance of small dihedral angles is readily apparent in Fig. 6.20, where the shape of the intersection is shown for angles of 10° and 1°.

2009, Reza Abbaschian, Lara Abbaschian, Robert E. Reed-Hill, Physical Metallurgy Principles, Cengage Learning, page 176:

(geometry) The angle between two planes.


electron cloud

(physics) A mathematically defined region around an atomic nucleus defined by a high probability that the atom's electrons will be present in that region.


phosphohydrolase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes an organic phosphate group


hexosyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any glycosyltransferase that catalyzes the transfer of a hexose


antidecuplet

(physics) A proposed grouping of light pentaquarks


braneworld

(informal, physics) A world that is a brane, with its own limited set of dimensions, in any of several brane cosmology theories.


darkon

(physics) A scalar field (or particle) that represents an elementary part of dark matter.


deconfinement

(physics) That state of a system of quarks and gluons that are free to move relatively independently


cryptoexotic

cryptoexotic (comparative more cryptoexotic, superlative most cryptoexotic)

more cryptoexotic (comparative)
most cryptoexotic (superlative)

(physics) Describing the state of certain systems of particles that have certain characteristics of exotic mesons or exotic baryons


echelle

From French échelle (“ladder”). Doublet of scale.


echelle grating

en-noun

echelle grating (plural echelle gratings)

(physics) A form of diffraction grating optimized for high orders of diffraction


enstrophy

enstrophy (countable and uncountable, plural enstrophies)

(physics) A measure of the kinetic energy of a fluid as a result of turbulence.

enstrofia

measure of kinetic energy of a fluid as a result of turbulence


eikonal

partial differential equation
partial differential equation

(physics, mathematics) Describing the properties of a class of partial differential equation encountered in descriptions of wave propagation.


hypernuclear

(physics) Of or pertaining to a hypernucleus.


leptoquark

(physics) Any of a class of hypothetical bosons that would decay into a lepton and a quark.


hadrogenesis

(physics) The proposed production of other hadrons by mesons or their transmutation into different ones.


logamediate

(physics) Describing a proposed form of cosmological inflation whose rate is intermediate between logarithmic and exponential.


minisuperspace

(physics) A small superspace, especially a spherically symmetric quantum bubble.


macroion

(chemistry, physics) A very large ion, especially a colloidal particle carrying an electric charge


overdense

en-adj

overdense (comparative more overdense, superlative most overdense)

more overdense (comparative)
most overdense (superlative)

Excessively dense; especially more dense than is necessary to form a galaxy.


relaxational

relaxational (comparative more relaxational, superlative most relaxational)

more relaxational (comparative)
most relaxational (superlative)

(physics) Of, relating to, or caused by relaxation.


semichiral

(physics) Describing a field that has chiral characteristics in some, but not all, dimensions


premelting

(physics) The formation of a quasi-liquid film on the surface of crystal below its melting point


neutrinoless

neutrinoless double beta decay

(physics) Not containing or involving neutrinos.


spheromak

(physics) A particular form of stabilized magnetic field in which a plasma may be confined for use in nuclear fusion.


quintom

(physics) A proposed interaction of a quintessence field and a phantom field as a model of dark energy


selfenergy

(physics) The contribution to a particle's mass or potential energy as a result of interactions between the particle and its environment


thermostatistics

statistical mechanics
statistical mechanics

(physics) The application of statistical mechanics to the study of thermodynamics.

termostatistica

application of statistical methods to thermodynamics


resummation

en-noun

resummation (countable and uncountable, plural resummations)

(mathematics, physics) A procedure to obtain a finite result from a divergent sum (series) of functions, involving the integral transformation of another (convergent) function in which the individual terms defining the original function are rescaled.


stoponium

(physics) A hypothetical bound state of a superpartner of the top quark in some supersymmetric theories.


flatfield

(optics) A flat portion of a lens or curved mirror, especially one introduced accidentally or by damage.


superheavy

(nuclear physics) Describing a transuranic element with an extremely high atomic number; typically taken to mean beyond lawrencium (element 103, the last actinide)


freezeout

(physics) Any situation in which the motion of a system of particles ceases.


electromotor

(physics) Any device that generates electricity

(physics) Any device that converts electricity into motion


timescape

From time + -scape, probably by analogy with landscape.

Back to the Future
DeLorean DMC-12
San Diego Comic-Con

timescape n. time conceived of, or perceived as, possessing multiple dimensions.

[2007, “timescape”, in Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 241:

My awareness extended beyond human memory and I drifted, lost in the crevices of the now visible Timescape. Then a point of light beckoned me and I strove for it. The light became the memory of my personality and I dove into it. I swirled in an ever-tightening spiral. I was all eight of my great-grand parents, I was both of my grandfathers and both of my grandmothers, I was my mother and my father and, finally, I was Jonathan Crowe again and I could now reflect upon what had been done to me.

2008 April 17, Jefferson R. Weekley, “The Pool of Blood”, in Red Earth, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 214:

[Mark] Zuckerberg is pursued throughout the timescape by the litigious Winklevoss twins, who operate a time machine bought for them by their daddy. Zuckerberg must constantly leap to and fro throughout the centuries in order to duck summonses.

2011, Travis Harmon, Jonathan Shockley, “Introduction”, in Let There Be Facebook: Status Updates from God, Gaga, and Everyone in between, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone Books, →ISBN, page vii, footnote 2:

(science fiction) A multi-dimensional view of time, especially one in which time travel occurs.


hypermultiplet

(physics) A specific type of four-dimensional supermultiplet that involves a spinor


macrocrack

(physics) A large-scale crack in a material caused by stress.


noncontextuality

(mathematics, physics) The condition of being noncontextual.


overconvergent

en-adj

overconvergent (comparative more overconvergent, superlative most overconvergent)

more overconvergent (comparative)
most overconvergent (superlative)

(mathematics, physics) Overly convergent


miniband

(physics) A periodic structure within a superlattice


monotonicity

en-noun

monotonicity (countable and uncountable, plural monotonicities)

(mathematics, physics) The state of being monotonic.

اِطِّرَادُ دَالَّةٍ

mathematics, physics: the state of being monotonic


calutron

Coined by Ernest Lawrence from Cal U. (“UC Berkeley”) + -tron.

(physics) A form of mass spectrometer used to separate the isotopes of uranium.


biexciton

(physics) A quantum combination of two excitons


axionlike

en-adj

axionlike (comparative more axionlike, superlative most axionlike)

more axionlike (comparative)
most axionlike (superlative)

(physics) Having some characteristics of an axion


braneless

(physics, astronomy) That does not involve a brane


dipion

(physics) A combination of the particle and antiparticle forms of two pions of the same flavour.


dilatonic

(physics) Of or pertaining to a dilaton.


deconfining

(physics) Of, pertaining to or causing deconfinement.


electroproduction

(chemistry, physics) the production of a molecular species (e.g. a radical or ion) by means of electricity (or electrons)


mass shift

(physics) The portion of an isotope shift produced by the changing mass of a nucleus upon the addition of a neutron


hyperelastic

(physics) Describing an ideally elastic material for which the stress-strain relationship derives from a strain energy density function


field shift

(physics) The portion of an isotope shift produced by the changing shape of a nucleus upon the addition of a neutron


magnetoelectrics

(physics) The study of magnetoelectricity


multifragmentation

en-noun

multifragmentation (usually uncountable, plural multifragmentations)

(physics) multiple fragmentation, especially of atomic nuclei during spallation


dilepton

(physics) A combination of the particle and antiparticle forms of two leptons of the same flavour


paraelectricity

(physics) The temporary polarization of a material in the presence of an electric field


meminductor

(physics) A passive nonlinear electrical element that exhibits meminductance


Rutherfordian

en-adj

Rutherfordian (comparative more Rutherfordian, superlative most Rutherfordian)

more Rutherfordian (comparative)
most Rutherfordian (superlative)

(specifically, physics) Of or pertaining to Ernest Rutherford, his planetary model of the atom (called the Rutherford model), or predictions made on the basis of this model.


quantumness

(physics) The condition of being quantum in nature


quasithermodynamic

quasithermodynamic (comparative more quasithermodynamic, superlative most quasithermodynamic)

more quasithermodynamic (comparative)
most quasithermodynamic (superlative)

(physics) Having some thermodynamic characteristics


restframe

(physics) The Lorentz frame in which the total momentum of a system is zero


rederive

en-verb

rederive (third-person singular simple present rederives, present participle rederiving, simple past and past participle rederived)

rederives (present singular third-person)
rederiving (participle present)
rederived (participle past)
rederived (past)

(mathematics, physics) To derive again, especially by using a different method


superembedding

(physics) A supersymmetric extension of classical surface theory to the description of superbrane dynamics by means of embedding worldvolume supersurfaces into target superspaces


superization

(physics, mathematics) The extension of a manifold to a supermanifold


teleparallel

(physics) Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting teleparallelism


teleparallelism

(physics) An early attempt at unifying electromagnetism and gravity, according to which a spacetime is characterized by a curvature-free linear connection in conjunction with a metric tensor field, both defined in terms of a dynamical tetrad field.


tribimaximal

(physics) Describes a combination of the trimaximal and bimaximal methods.


transplanckian

en-adj

transplanckian (comparative more transplanckian, superlative most transplanckian)

more transplanckian (comparative)
most transplanckian (superlative)

(physics) Associated with energies greater than the Planck energy


world line

(physics) A path in spacetime, especially that traversed by an elementary particle from its creation to its destruction.


magnetricity

(physics) The flow of magnetic monopoles as the magnetic equivalent of electricity.


isocrystalline

(chemistry, physics) Having the same crystalline structure


subconducting

(physics) Describing a state in which conduction is reduced


electroabsorption

(physics) The absorption of photons at a surface by application of an electric charge.


fluxon

(physics) The quasiparticle of electric or magnetic flux


fluctuator

(physics) A quantum system in which an electric charge moves back and forward between two states that are separated by an energy barrier


leptogenesis

(physics) The differential production of leptons, rather than antileptons, in the early universe


upscattered

upscattered (comparative more upscattered, superlative most upscattered)

more upscattered (comparative)
most upscattered (superlative)


upscattering

(physics) The increase in wavelength of radiation scattered by an electron


intermodulation

en-noun

intermodulation (countable and uncountable, plural intermodulations)

(physics) modulation of the different frequencies of interacting waves


outcouple

en-verb

outcouple (third-person singular simple present outcouples, present participle outcoupling, simple past and past participle outcoupled)

outcouples (present singular third-person)
outcoupling (participle present)
outcoupled (participle past)
outcoupled (past)

(physics) To remove the coupling between two interacting beams of laser light

(physics) To let laser light escape from its confining cavity


roton

(physics) The quantum of rotation in a superfluid

(physics) an elementary excitation or quasiparticle in a superfluid


nucleo-

Formed from nucleus, from Latin nucleus (“kernel, core”), a diminutive of nux (“nut”).

(physics) Forming words pertaining to atomic nuclei.


gradiometer

(physics) Any of several instruments used to measure the gradient of a physical property (such as magnetic field).


dihadron

(physics) Any particle that is a combination of two hadrons


helimagnet

(physics) Any material that exhibits helimagnetism


isoplanatic

en-adj

isoplanatic (comparative more isoplanatic, superlative most isoplanatic)

more isoplanatic (comparative)
most isoplanatic (superlative)


metadynamics

(mathematics, computing, physics, chemistry) An algorithmic method of simulating rare complex systems and for calculating the free energy associated with them


magnetodielectric

(physics) Describing materials that are both magnetic and dielectric

(physics) Describing the effect of magnetism on the dielectric properties of a material


neutronization

(physics, astronomy) The process, such as within a collapsing star, in which protons and electrons fuse to form neutrons and release neutrinos.


multiqubit

multiqubit (comparative more multiqubit, superlative most multiqubit)

more multiqubit (comparative)
most multiqubit (superlative)

(quantum computing) Involving multiple qubits


microgauss

(physics) A unit of magnetic field strength equal to one millionth of a gauss


multicritical

multicritical (comparative more multicritical, superlative most multicritical)

more multicritical (comparative)
most multicritical (superlative)

(physics) Describing systems, points etc., that are critical in multiple ways


quasibound

(physics) Describing a system, particle etc., that has both a closed and an open boundary condition


midrapidity

en-noun

midrapidity (countable and uncountable, plural midrapidities)

(physics) The rapidity of a particle close to the axis of a beam of particles.


rescattering

(physics) A second or subsequent scattering


spectropolarimetry

(physics) The measurement of the polarization of light at different wavelengths


scalelength

(mathematics, physics) The length of a scale


bidisperse

(physics) Describing a colloid in which the disperse phase particles are of two different sizes


cosmochronometer

(physics, astronomy) Any process (such as forms of radioactive decay) that may be used to determine the age of an astronomical object.


macrorealism

(physics) The proposed state of large-scale reality in which quantum mechanical superpositions of macroscopically distinct states never occur


eigentime

(physics) A time whose value is that of a corresponding eigenvalue.


eigenmass

(physics) A mass whose value is that of a corresponding eigenvalue.


lightlike

en-adj

lightlike (comparative more lightlike, superlative most lightlike)

more lightlike (comparative)
most lightlike (superlative)

(mathematics) (of a four-vector) Having a space component whose magnitude is equal to its time component multiplied by the speed of light.

lichtartig

having a space component equal to its time component multiplied by the speed of light


picobarn

(physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻¹² barns.


classicality

en-noun

classicality (countable and uncountable, plural classicalities)

(countable, physics) The degree to which a system or phenomenon may be explained by classical mechanics

klassisuus

physics: degree to which a system or phenomenon may be explained by classical mechanics


quarkyonic

quantum chromodynamics
quantum chromodynamics#English

(physics) Describing elements of quantum chromodynamics that have characteristics both of quarks and of baryons.


quasifree

en-adj

quasifree (comparative more quasifree, superlative most quasifree)

more quasifree (comparative)
most quasifree (superlative)

(physics) Describing the state of electrons in a metal or other conductor that may move freely, but come up against a periodic potential in the vicinity of its atoms


stripline

(physics) A form of electromagnetic transmission medium that uses a flat strip of metal sandwiched between dielectrics


subthermal

(physics) Having an energy less than that of a thermal neutron


ultralocal

ultralocal (comparative more ultralocal, superlative most ultralocal)

more ultralocal (comparative)
most ultralocal (superlative)

(mathematics, physics) Whose properties are influenced by its immediate neighbours only


undercool

en-verb

undercool (third-person singular simple present undercools, present participle undercooling, simple past and past participle undercooled)

undercools (present singular third-person)
undercooling (participle present)
undercooled (participle past)
undercooled (past)


thermal neutron

en-noun

thermal neutron (plural thermal neutrons)

(physics) A relatively slow-moving neutron whose energy is governed by the temperature of its environment.


ferropaper

(physics, chemistry) paper impregnated with magnetic nanoparticles of iron oxide


hadroproduction

(physics) The production of hadrons, especially by the interaction of quarks, gluons etc.


ferropnictide

(physics, chemistry) Any of a class of iron pnictide materials that are superconductors.


metallophotonic

(physics) Having both metallic and photonic characteristics


photogenerated

(physics) Generated by light (used especially of electrons).


supertechnicolor

(physics) Describing a supersymmetry extension to the technicolor model


photodetection

(physics) The detection of individual photons using a photodetector


worldvolume

(physics, in supersymmetry) A measure of the size of a brane


dibaryon

(physics) Any of a proposed class of particles that would be a complex of two baryons (or six quarks).


beamforming

(physics) A technique by which the phase and amplitude of transmitted signals are modified, by a feedback process, in order to improve transmission speed.


HGPRT

HGPRT (countable and uncountable, plural HGPRTs)

(biochemistry) Initialism of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase


spinlike

en-adj

spinlike (comparative more spinlike, superlative most spinlike)

more spinlike (comparative)
most spinlike (superlative)

A spinlike variable was introduced.


dielectron

(physics) A combination of two electrons


mode-locked

(physics) Describing a laser in which several modes of oscillation are synchronized so as to generate a strong, short pulse of light.


geometrodynamics

(physics) Any of several reformulations of general relativity that attempt to describe spacetime and associated phenomena completely in terms of geometry.


electropulsation

(biology, physics) The application of pulses of electricity to individual cells in order to make its membrane temporarily permeable


antifield

(mathematics, physics) Opposed to a field


subnatural

subnatural (comparative more subnatural, superlative most subnatural)

more subnatural (comparative)
most subnatural (superlative)

(physics) Describing spectroscopic lines that are narrower than those produced naturally


antiferroelectrics

(physics) The study or use of antiferroelectric materials, and of antiferroelectricity


antisphaleron

(physics) The antiparticle of a sphaleron


sphaleron

From σφαλερός (sphalerós, “slippery”) + -on.

(physics) The particle-like solution to an electroweak field equation.


antiferroelectricity

From anti- + ferroelectricity or antiferro- + electricity.

(physics) The property associated with antiferroelectric materials


linestrength

(physics) The intensity of a spectrum line.


gravastar

(astronomy, physics) A proposed alternative to black holes that is more consistent with quantum mechanics.


multicollision

(physics) Involving multiple collisions (of particles etc.).


dedisperse

en-verb

dedisperse (third-person singular simple present dedisperses, present participle dedispersing, simple past and past participle dedispersed)

dedisperses (present singular third-person)
dedispersing (participle present)
dedispersed (participle past)
dedispersed (past)

(physics) To bring together data, rays etc that have been dispersed


semileptonic

(physics) Of or pertaining to the decay of a hadron through the weak nuclear force in which one lepton (and the corresponding neutrino) is produced in addition to one or more hadrons.


spin foam

en-noun

spin foam (countable and uncountable, plural spin foams)

Feynman's path integral
Feynman's path integral

(physics) A topological structure made out of two-dimensional faces that represents one of the configurations that must be summed to obtain a Feynman's path integral description of quantum gravity.


zeptobarn

(physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²¹ barns


presymmetry

(physics) The electroweak symmetry of quarks and leptons that is responsible for the partial charges on quarks.


supergalaxy

Our galaxy, together with the ninety-three globular clusters and the two Magellanic Clouds, forms a sort of super-galaxy in space.

1935, Arthur McCracken Harding, Astronomy: The Splendor of the Heavens Brought Down to Earth, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., Our Galaxy Belongs to a Super-Galaxy, page 374:

The radio galaxies Virgo A, Centaurus A and possibly Fornax A lie within the Local Supergalaxy. In addition, the weaker galaxies NGC 4261, M84 and NGC 1068 are also located in this supergalaxy.

1964, V. L. Ginzburg, S. I. Syrovatskii, translated by H. S. H. Massey, edited by D. ter Haar, The Origin of Cosmic Rays, Moscow: Pergamon Press, →ISBN, page 243:

Our descendants will observe that they live in a blob of stars, which results from gravity pulling together a few nearby galaxies into one supergalaxy.

2013, Clifford A. Pickover, The Book of Black: Black Holes, Black Death, Black Forest Cake and Other Dark Sides of Life, Calla Editions, →ISBN, Lonely Black Sky, page 198:

A very large, extended cluster of galaxies.


gluodynamics

quantum chromodynamics
quantum chromodynamics

(physics) The dynamics (or quantum chromodynamics) of gluons


orientifold

(physics) An oriented generalization of an orbifold


chromoelectric

(physics, in quantum chromodynamics) Describing the field generated by gluons


polyinstanton

(physics) That involves multiple instantons


intergrain

(physics) Between the grains of a magnetic material.


ultralocalization

(physics) The act of making, or of treating as ultralocal


supersphere

(physics) An aggregation of spherical colloidal particles


chromomagnetic

Quarks are color charged particles. Due to their motion there is a strong possibility of generation of color magnetic field. It is shown that however hadrons are color singlet particles they may have non-zero color magnetic moment. Due to this color magnetic moment hadrons can show color interaction. In this paper we have studied the chromomagnetic properties of nuclear matter.

2012, Akhilesh Ranjan, P. K. Raina, “Chromomagnetism in nuclear matter”, in International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 51:496:

(physics, in quantum chromodynamics) Describing the field generated by gluons of the dual gauge group


superstatistics

(mathematics, physics) A branch of statistical mechanics that studies certain nonlinear systems


isorotational

(physics) Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting isorotation


magnetogravitational

(physics) Describing any system influenced by both magnetism and gravity


isorotation

isorotation (countable and uncountable, plural isorotations)

(physics) Equal rotation, especially of parts of a rotating magnetic field


photoheating

(physics, astronomy) heating by the action of light


photoinjector

(physics) A device that uses a photocathode to generate a beam of electrons


squbit

(quantum computing) A semiconducting qubit (as proposed for use in quantum computers)


magnetostructural

(physics) Describing the interaction of the structure of a material and its magnetic properties


ringhole

(physics, astronomy) A relatively short, toroidal wormhole


absorbtance

absorbtance (countable and uncountable, plural absorbtances)

(physics) The ratio of the radiant flux absorbed by a body to that incident upon it


aerothermoelasticity

(physics) The study of the effects of thermodynamic heating and loading on elastic materials or structures.


anacoustic

en-adj

anacoustic (comparative more anacoustic, superlative most anacoustic)

more anacoustic (comparative)
most anacoustic (superlative)

(physics) Describing the upper reaches of the atmosphere, and of space, in which the concentration of molecules is too small to support the propagation of sound


allobar

From allo- + bar. According to Alfred J. Henry, the meteorology sense was coined in Swedish by Nils Gustaf Ekholm.

(physics) Any form of an element having a different isotopic composition to that of the natural element, and thus a different atomic weight.


piezotropy

(physics) The state of a fluid in which there is a thermodynamic relationship between pressure and density


austausch coefficient

en-noun

austausch coefficient (plural austausch coefficients)

(physics) A coefficient of turbulent flow in eddies.


barotropy

(physics) The state of a fluid in which density is directly proportional to pressure

baratrópacht

the state of a fluid in which density is directly proportional to pressure


actinon

(physics, dated) Radon-219 (²¹⁹₈₆Rn; symbol An), an isotope of radon


autobarotropy

(physics) The state of a fluid in which pressure and density surfaces coincide, as a result of a combination of barotropy and piezotropy


superdeformed

en-adj

superdeformed (comparative more superdeformed, superlative most superdeformed)

more superdeformed (comparative)
most superdeformed (superlative)

(physics, of a nucleus) Very far from spherical, forming an ellipsoid with axes in ratios of approximately 2:1:1 (as opposed to the norm of approximately 1.3:1:1).


hyperdeformed

hyperdeformed (comparative more hyperdeformed, superlative most hyperdeformed)

more hyperdeformed (comparative)
most hyperdeformed (superlative)

(physics, of a nucleus) Very far from spherical and even more than superdeformed, forming an ellipsoid with axes in ratios of approximately 3:1:1 (as opposed to the norm of approximately 1.3:1:1).


bistatic

(physics) Describing reflection of a ray from an object both directly back to the origin of the ray, and also at an angle


pectinesterase

en-noun

pectinesterase (countable and uncountable, plural pectinesterases)

(biochemistry) A ubiquitous cell-wall-associated enzyme that presents several isoforms that facilitate plant cell wall modification and subsequent breakdown, found in all higher plants as well as in some bacteria and fungi


electromagnon

(quantum mechanics) A spin wave which can be excited by an alternating electric field.


parafermion

(physics) The equivalent of a fermion in any of several parastatistics


pseudospintronics

(physics) A form of spintronics that relies upon pseudospin


isoscaling

(physics) The differential scaling properties of isotopes


fluxtube

(physics) A cylindrical region of space containing a magnetic field that is parallel to the walls of the cylinder.


scotino

(physics) The proposed dark matter equivalent of a fermion


parastatistics

(quantum mechanics) Any of several proposed statistics that are alternatives to the standard ones


paraboson

(physics) The equivalent of a boson in any of several parastatistics.


burnup

burnup (countable and uncountable, plural burnups)

(physics) A measure of the consumption of fuel in a nuclear reactor.


thromboplastin

(biochemistry) A protease that converts prothrombin to thrombin during the clotting of blood.


antibunched

(physics) Describing a stream of photons in which the emission on one photon delays the emission of the next.


leptogluon

(physics) Any of a class of proposed particles formed from a lepton and one or more gluons


gyroviscous

en-adj

gyroviscous (comparative more gyroviscous, superlative most gyroviscous)

more gyroviscous (comparative)
most gyroviscous (superlative)


eigencoefficient

(mathematics, physics) Any of the coefficients of an eigenstate.


magnetocrystalline

(physics) Describing the interaction between the magnetization and the crystal structure of a material


bimetric

(mathematics, physics) Describing any system that may be described using two metrics.


magnetoplasma

(physics) A plasma associated with a magnetic field.


multiferroicity

(physics) The condition of being multiferroic


paramagneticlike

paramagneticlike (comparative more paramagneticlike, superlative most paramagneticlike)

more paramagneticlike (comparative)
most paramagneticlike (superlative)

(physics) Having some characteristics of a paramagnetic material


photocount

(physics) A count of the distributions of photons obtained by counting photoelectric electrons


photostatistics

(physics) statistics of the numbers of photons in various quantum states


relaxor

(physics) A ferroelectric material that exhibits high electrostriction


antibunching

(physics) The situation in which the emission on one photon delays the emission of the next

antiagrupamento

the situation in which the emission on one photon delays the emission of the next


subdynamics

(physics) A reduced form of dynamics used to describe certain quantum systems


multiquark

(physics) Involving, or composed of multiple quarks


multiquark

(physics) Any combination of multiple quarks


preionize

en-verb

preionize (third-person singular simple present preionizes, present participle preionizing, simple past and past participle preionized)

preionizes (present singular third-person)
preionizing (participle present)
preionized (participle past)
preionized (past)

(physics) To ionize in advance of another process


redwards

en-adj

redwards (comparative more redwards, superlative most redwards)

more redwards (comparative)
most redwards (superlative)

(physics) Towards the red end of the spectrum


multibody

(mathematics, physics) Involving multiple, interacting bodies


entanglon

(quantum mechanics) A proposed particle, somewhat equivalent to a gluon, that maintains the entanglement between scattered particles


econophysicist

(economics, physics) An economist or physicist whose speciality of econophysics


sociophysicist

(sociology, physics) A sociologist or physicist whose speciality is sociophysics.


macrospin

(physics) Describing a single-domain approximation used in the analysis of spin valves.


sociophysics

(sociology, physics) The study of social and political behavior using tools and concepts from physics and physical chemistry


nonrecoil

(firearms, physics) Without recoil; recoilless.


econophysics

Instead, Mr. Farmer, a professor at the interdisciplinary Sante Fe Institute, is doing research on models of markets, institutions and their complex interactions, applying a hybrid discipline called econophysics.

2009 September 13, Steve Lohr, “Wall Street’s Math Wizards Forgot a Few Variables”, in New York Times:

(economics, physics) The study of economics using the techniques of physics


quasihole

(physics) A hole equivalent to the absence of a quasiparticle


armlength

From Middle English armelengþ, arme lengþe, equivalent to arm + length.

(physics) The length of each arm of an interferometer


compacton

(physics) A specific form of soliton, having compact support on a topological space.


redward

redward (comparative more redward, superlative most redward)

more redward (comparative)
most redward (superlative)

(physics) Toward the red end of the spectrum


speromagnetic

speromagnetic (comparative more speromagnetic, superlative most speromagnetic)

more speromagnetic (comparative)
most speromagnetic (superlative)

(physics) Describing a material in which the spins are aligned in fixed but random alignments due to the local magnetic anisotropy.


virtual particle

en-noun

virtual particle (plural virtual particles)

(physics) a particle that exists for a limited time and space, introducing uncertainty in their energy and momentum


bandlimited

(physics) Describing a signal whose spectral power is zero outside of a band of frequencies


intercommuting

(physics) That interact in a commutative manner


electroconvection

(physics) The flow of molecules of a liquid crystal (or other fluid) under the influence of an applied electric field


deacetyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that remove acetyl groups, especially from a lysine residue of a histone


angoricity

(physics) A measure of the stress in a system of granular materials near to jamming.


compactivity

compactivity (countable and uncountable, plural compactivities)

(physics) A measure of how compact a granular material is.


selfquenching

(physics) The quenching of an excited atom (etc) by interaction with another of the same type of atom in the ground state


athermal

en-adj

athermal (comparative more athermal, superlative most athermal)

more athermal (comparative)
most athermal (superlative)

(physics) Describing any process that does not involve either heat or a change in temperature.


antimonopole

(physics) A monopole of opposite polarity to another

antimonopolo

a monopole of opposite polarity to another


vertexing

(physics) The detection of vertices in the tracks of particles.


piezonuclear

(physics) Describing supposed nuclear reactions as a result of mechanical stress (such as cavitation)


conductometry

(physics, chemistry) Measurement of the electrical conductivity of a solution during the course of a chemical reaction. It is the determination of the quantity of a material present in a mixture by measurement of its effect on the electrical conductivity of the mixture.


aminomethyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of an aminomethyl group

aminometyylitransferaasi

any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of an aminomethyl group


pretzelosity

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pretzelosity.wav

(mathematics, physics) The condition of having the knotted form of a pretzel


right-handed

right-handed (comparative more right-handed, superlative most right-handed)

more right-handed (comparative)
most right-handed (superlative)

From Middle English riȝt honded, equivalent to right + handed.

(physics) Of a particle for which the direction of its spin is the same as the direction of its motion.


antibound

(physics) Connected by an antibonding orbital (or the equivalent)


chronogeometric

(physics) Of or pertaining to chronogeometry.


equifrequency

(mathematics, physics) Having, or concerning the same frequencies


chronogeometry

(physics, mathematics) A form of relativistic geometry in which time is considered as a form of spatial coordinate


deexcitation

en-noun

deexcitation (countable and uncountable, plural deexcitations)

(physics) The change in state as an excited state releases a quantum of energy.


deexcited

en-adj

deexcited (comparative more deexcited, superlative most deexcited)

more deexcited (comparative)
most deexcited (superlative)

(physics) Subject to, or produced by deexcitation


isotriplet

(physics) A group of three particles differing only in isospin


rescattered

rescattered (comparative more rescattered, superlative most rescattered)

more rescattered (comparative)
most rescattered (superlative)


exophobic

exophobic (comparative more exophobic, superlative most exophobic)

more exophobic (comparative)
most exophobic (superlative)

(physics) Tending to discriminate against dissimilar items.


quasilocal

quasilocal (comparative more quasilocal, superlative most quasilocal)

more quasilocal (comparative)
most quasilocal (superlative)

(physics) Describing an extended but finite spacetime domain


nematogenic

In zoology, formed as nematogen + -ic; in physical chemistry, formed as nemato- + -genic. Compare nematogenous.

(physics, chemistry) Describing a solid that forms a nematic liquid crystal when heated.


isodoublet

(physics) A group of two particles differing only in isospin


electrorheology

(physics) The study of the effects of electric fields on the rheological properties of materials


heliosynchronous

A heliosynchronous orbit is an orbit [around the Earth] whose plane precesses by [a little less than] one degree a day around the line of the poles, thus keeping the same position in relation to the Earth-Sun line.

1987, Pierre Lellouche, Satellite warfare: a challenge for the international community, Institut français des relations internationales, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, United Nations:

Describing an orbit around the Earth where each passage in the same direction along a given latitude will occur throughout the year at the same true solar time.


deliquium

Borrowed from Latin deliquium, from Latin delinquere (“to lack, to fail”).

(physical chemistry) Liquefaction through absorption of moisture from the air.


chiralon

(physics) Any of a family of proposed chiral mesons


top antiquark

(physics) The antiparticle of the top quark


superseparability

(mathematics, physics) The condition of being superseparable


superseparable

(mathematics, physics) separable in many different ways


crystalloid

(physical chemistry) Any substance that can be crystallized from solution; a water-soluble crystalline substance that can diffuse through a semipermeable membrane, as opposed to a colloid which cannot.

criostalóideach

any substance that can be crystallized from solution

(biochemistry, botany) One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells.


crystalloid

crystalloid (comparative more crystalloid, superlative most crystalloid)

more crystalloid (comparative)
most crystalloid (superlative)

Crystal-like; transparent like crystal, or shaped like a crystal.


triplon

(physics) A quasiparticle associated with triplet states


magnetoionic

From magneto- + ionic; compare the better-formed magnetionic.

(physics) Describing the affects of a magnetic field on ionic behaviour.

(physics) Having both magnetic and ionic characteristics.


pycnonuclear

(nuclear physics) Describing nuclear reactions caused by the density of the reactants


superspin

en-noun

superspin (countable and uncountable, plural superspins)

(physics) The spin of a superconducting particle, wave etc.

(physics) A form of spin associated with supersymmetry.


narrow-width effect

narrow-width effect (plural narrow-width effects)

(physics) An anomalous threshold voltage behavior of certain sub-halfmicron semiconductors due to migration of specific elements and local oxidation


tricriticality

tricriticality (countable and uncountable, plural tricriticalities)

(physics) The condition of being tricritical; a tricritical system


superoperator

(mathematics, physics) A linear operator acting on a space of linear operators


tricritical

(physics) Describing a condition, in condensed matter, in which three phases are in equilibrium


condensed matter

(physics) Any form of matter, such as a solid or liquid, in which there are strong interactions between neighbouring atoms


objectivation

(physics) An interpretation of a quantum mechanical concept in terms of classical physics.


subharmonic

en-adj

subharmonic (comparative more subharmonic, superlative most subharmonic)

more subharmonic (comparative)
most subharmonic (superlative)

(physics) Having a frequency that is a fraction of a fundamental frequency

subharmonisch

physics: having a frequency that is a fraction of a fundamental frequency


retrocausality

en-noun

retrocausality (usually uncountable, plural retrocausalities)

(physics) Any of several hypothetical phenomena that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause.


alkyllysinase

(biochemistry) Any of a family of enzymes that catalyses the removal of alkyl (especially methyl) groups from lysine


deiminase

(biochemistry) Any hydrolase that hydrolyses imines


flexoelectric

(physics) Of, pertaining to, or produced by flexoelectricity


flexoelectricity

(physics) The mechanoelectrical production of electricity by bending a material (especially some types of liquid crystal)


helislab

(physics) A relatively large cluster of liquid crystal molecules having a common helical axis.


merohedry

(crystallography) The condition of a crystal whose point group is a subgroup of that of its lattice


photodifference

(crystallography) Used attributively to describe a map of the electron density differencies between parts of a sample that had been irradiated


photoisomerism

photoisomerism (countable and uncountable, plural photoisomerisms)

(chemistry, physics) isomerism (interconversion of isomers) as a result of irradiation by light


microdiffraction

(physics) diffraction that uses X-rays focused to a spot size of one micron or less to achieve very high spatial resolution


paracrystal

(crystallography) Any crystalline material that has a highly distorted lattice with unit cells of highly variable shape and size


pseudomerohedry

(crystallography) The condition of being pseudomerohedral


ribosylhydrolase

(biochemistry) Any of a class of hydrolase enzymes that remove ribose moieties


succinyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any transferase enzyme that transfers succinyl groups


magnetophotonic

en-adj

magnetophotonic (comparative more magnetophotonic, superlative most magnetophotonic)

more magnetophotonic (comparative)
most magnetophotonic (superlative)

(physics) Describing any photonic property of a material that is due to its magnetization


coboson

(physics) Any boson considered to be a composite particle.


superradiant

superradiant (comparative more superradiant, superlative most superradiant)

more superradiant (comparative)
most superradiant (superlative)

Of, pertaining to, or producing superradiance


sortase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of prokaryotic enzymes that form pili through cleavage and isopeptide bonding of precursors


enolase

(biochemistry) A metalloenzyme responsible for the catalysis of phosphoglycerate to phosphoenolpyruvate during glycolysis


staphylokinase

(biochemistry) A kinase, from Staphylococcus bacteria, that activates plasminogen to form plasmin


stromelysin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of metalloproteinases that cleave extracellular matrix proteins.


autoscattering

(physics) A proposed quantum effect following the recombination of a split quanton


magnetopolaron

(physics) The magnetic equivalent of a polaron


electrovacuum

(physics) A particular solution to a field equation in general relativity.


electrorotation

(physics) The rotation of an electrically polarized particle


focalization

en-noun

focalization (countable and uncountable, plural focalizations)

From focal + -ization or focalize + -ation.


Higgsless

From Higgs + -less; named after British physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the Higgs mechanism, which would be missing under this adjective.

named-after

(physics) Describing any system in which the Higgs boson/Higgs field/Higgs mechanism is not involved, or is presumed not to exist.


lithiumlike

en-adj

lithiumlike (comparative more lithiumlike, superlative most lithiumlike)

more lithiumlike (comparative)
most lithiumlike (superlative)

(physics) Having a similar electronic structure to that of a lithium atom


photohadronic

(physics) Describing any affect of the interaction of light with hadrons


phason

(physics) A quasiparticle existing in quasicrystals due to their specific, quasiperiodic lattice structure


subrelativistic

subrelativistic (comparative more subrelativistic, superlative most subrelativistic)

more subrelativistic (comparative)
most subrelativistic (superlative)

(physics) Describing a velocity (and associated properties) that is considerably less than the speed of light such that relativistic effects may be ignored


beamstop

X-ray crystallography
X-ray crystallography

(crystallography) Any of several devices used in X-ray crystallography to avoid damage by X-rays


anorthic

(crystallography) Having three unequal axes that intersect obliquely


cryobench

(crystallography) An optical bench designed for cryocrystallography


cryobuffer

(crystallography) A solution, which will not solidify on cooling, in which crystals may be grown at low temperature


stereodynamics

(chemistry, physics) The dynamics of stereochemical reactions or behaviour


magnetoelastic

From magneto- + elastic; compare the better-formed magnetelastic.

(physics) Describing the interaction between magnetization and strain in a magnetic material


exopolyphosphatase

(biochemistry) Any of a class of exocellular phosphohydrolases that hydrolyse polyphosphate


molybdoenzyme

In the present investigation evidence is presented indicating that the CO₂ reductase from Cl. pasteurianum most probably is a molybdoenzyme: It is synthesized only in the presence of molybdenum and is inactivated by low concentrations of cyanide, as are other molybdoenzymes.

1973 December 15, “CO₂ reductase from Clostridium pasteurianum: Molybdenum dependence of synthesis and inactivation by cyanide”, in FEBS Letters, volume 38, number 1, page 45:

Many organisms possessed several molybdoenzyme families and several subfamilies within these families. In archaea, as in bacteria, DMSOR was also the most frequently used molybdoenzyme family (>95% of Mo-utilizing organisms).

2016, Valeria Culotta, Metals in Cells, page 26:

While eukaryotes produce only a limited number of enzymes belonging to the sulfite oxidase and xanthine oxidase families (for instance, four molybdoenzymes are present in humans), enzymes of all three families are present in prokaryotes with enzymes of the DMSO reductase family being predominant.

2016, Russ Hille, Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzymes, page 118:

(biochemistry) Any metalloenzyme in which the active metal is molybdenum.


nucleotidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a nucleotide to a nucleoside and phosphate


tetramerization

(organic chemistry) polymerization to form a tetramer


gravitinoless

(physics) That does not involve gravitinos


bicontinuous

(physics, chemistry, of a liquid mixture) Being a continuous phase composed of two immiscible liquids interacting through rapidly changing hydrogen bonds


trionic

(physics) Of, pertaining to, or composed of trions


azoreductase

(biochemistry) Any of a family of enzymes that catalyze the conversion of diamines to azo compounds


microseed

(crystallography) A very small crystal used to seed the formation of larger ones.


dimuon

(physics) Used attributively to describe systems containing two muons


microseeding

(crystallography) A technique in which very small crystals are used to seed the formation of much larger ones


antipartner

(particle physics) The antiparticle of a specific particle.


liquid crystal display

en-noun

liquid crystal display (plural liquid crystal displays)

A display device that uses liquid crystals to control luminance of each pixel or pattern.


exoenergic

en-adj

exoenergic (comparative more exoenergic, superlative most exoenergic)

more exoenergic (comparative)
most exoenergic (superlative)

(physics) That releases energy; exothermic


kosmotropic

kosmotropic (comparative more kosmotropic, superlative most kosmotropic)

more kosmotropic (comparative)
most kosmotropic (superlative)

(physics, chemistry) Describing ions (normally small, with a high charge density) that stabilize intermolecular interactions in water, especially by stabilizing hydrogen bonds


antiprotonic

(particle physics) Of, pertaining to, or composed of antiprotons.

antiprotonico

of, pertaining to, or composed of antiprotons


photoresistance

en-noun

photoresistance (countable and uncountable, plural photoresistances)

(physics) resistance of a material that varies with the amount of incident light


trilepton

(physics) Any particle formed from three leptons

(physics) Used attributively for any system involving three leptons


selfgravitating

(physics, astronomy) Describing any system influenced by its own gravitational field


metallocarboxypeptidase

(biochemistry) Any metalloproteinase exopeptidase


amidocuprate

(organic chemistry) Any of a group of complex anions containing copper amides; any salt containing such an anion


tribometer

(physics) A device that measures the coefficient of friction of a surface.

tribòmetre

instrument to measure friction of surfaces


acyliminium

(organic chemistry) Any acyl iminium ion


split-ring resonator

split-ring resonator (plural split-ring resonators)

(physics) A metamaterial component composed of pair of concentric annular rings with splits in them at opposite ends. The rings are made of a nonmagnetic metal, such as copper, and have a small gap between them.


backpressure

backpressure (countable and uncountable, plural backpressures)

(fluid dynamics) Pressure that is opposed to the flow of a fluid.


diastereocontrol

(physical chemistry) selective control of the formation of diastereoisomers in a reaction


diastereoselection

(physical chemistry) selection of the required diastereoisomer in a reaction, especially by using diastereocontrol


actiniferous

en-adj

actiniferous (comparative more actiniferous, superlative most actiniferous)

more actiniferous (comparative)
most actiniferous (superlative)


lithiation

en-noun

lithiation (countable and uncountable, plural lithiations)

(physics) The incorporation of lithium into an electrode in a lithium-ion battery


sialidase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of mammalian lysosomal neuraminidases.


GEO

genetically engineered organism
genetically engineered organism#English

Initialism of genetically engineered organism.


MDA

MDA (countable and uncountable, plural MDAs)

medium-density amorphous ice
medium-density amorphous ice#English

(physics, chemistry) Initialism of medium-density amorphous ice (“a form of H₂O water ice, with a density like that of liquid water”).


MWI

many-worlds interpretation
many-worlds interpretation#English

(physics) Abbreviation of many-worlds interpretation.

microwave irradiation
microwave irradiation#English

(uncountable, physics) Abbreviation of microwave irradiation.


fucosyltransferase

(biochemistry) A transferase that catalyzes the transfer of fucose sugars


alkaline phosphatase

alkaline phosphatase (plural alkaline phosphatases)

(biochemistry) Any of a group of phosphatases that are most active in an alkaline environment


afterpulsing

(physics) The production of afterpulses due to feedback in a photon detector


bispinor

(physics) An object that is used to describe quantum fields having half-spin


gyroradius

(physics) The radius of the circular motion of a charged particle in the presence of a uniform magnetic field.


diamagnet

(physics) Any material that exhibits diamagnetism.


gyrofrequency

(physics) The frequency of the circular motion of a charged particle in the presence of a uniform magnetic field.


gravithermal

(physics) pertaining to the thermal effects of gravity


locsiton

(physics) A form of exciton that has only a local effect.


magnetoasymmetry

magnetoasymmetry (countable and uncountable, plural magnetoasymmetries)

(physics) Any asymmetry in a magnetic field.


detwinned

(crystallography) Describing the components of a twinned crystal that have been separated.


nanoSQUID

(physics) A nanoscale superconducting quantum interference device


nanobunch

(physics) A nanoscale cluster of electrons in a diffraction pattern


gyrofluid

(physics) A fluid that is undergoing gyroscopic movement; used attributively to describe the flow effects of rotation.


uraniferous

en-adj

uraniferous (comparative more uraniferous, superlative most uraniferous)

more uraniferous (comparative)
most uraniferous (superlative)


poloniferous

poloniferous (comparative more poloniferous, superlative most poloniferous)

more poloniferous (comparative)
most poloniferous (superlative)

(rare) Containing or producing polonium.


gradiometry

(physics) The study and measurement of variations in some physical attribute


spherium

(physics, mathematics) A model of a form of atom composed of two electrons restricted to the surface of a sphere.