"decohere" meaning in English

See decohere in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /diːkəʊˈhɪə(ɹ)/ [UK] Forms: decoheres [present, singular, third-person], decohering [participle, present], decohered [participle, past], decohered [past]
Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From de- + cohere. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|de|cohere}} de- + cohere Head templates: {{en-verb}} decohere (third-person singular simple present decoheres, present participle decohering, simple past and past participle decohered)
  1. (physics) To cause, or to undergo decoherence. Categories (topical): Physics Derived forms: decoherence, decoherent, decohesion, decohesive

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "cohere"
      },
      "expansion": "de- + cohere",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From de- + cohere.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "decoheres",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "decohering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "decohered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "decohered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "decohere (third-person singular simple present decoheres, present participle decohering, simple past and past participle decohered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with de-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Physics",
          "orig": "en:Physics",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "decoherence"
        },
        {
          "word": "decoherent"
        },
        {
          "word": "decohesion"
        },
        {
          "word": "decohesive"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 February 25, ‘An uncertain future’, The Economist:",
          "text": "Even the slightest disturbance causes qubits to “decohere”, shedding their magical properties.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 July 12, Charles Hugh Smith, How Will We Distribute the Pain Ahead?:",
          "text": "History suggests those in power will cling to whatever is working well for them even as the economy and society decay and decohere around them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause, or to undergo decoherence."
      ],
      "id": "en-decohere-en-verb-gn8ZFGm6",
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "decoherence",
          "decoherence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics) To cause, or to undergo decoherence."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/diːkəʊˈhɪə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "decohere"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "decoherence"
    },
    {
      "word": "decoherent"
    },
    {
      "word": "decohesion"
    },
    {
      "word": "decohesive"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "cohere"
      },
      "expansion": "de- + cohere",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From de- + cohere.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "decoheres",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "decohering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "decohered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "decohered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "decohere (third-person singular simple present decoheres, present participle decohering, simple past and past participle decohered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with de-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)/3 syllables",
        "en:Physics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 February 25, ‘An uncertain future’, The Economist:",
          "text": "Even the slightest disturbance causes qubits to “decohere”, shedding their magical properties.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 July 12, Charles Hugh Smith, How Will We Distribute the Pain Ahead?:",
          "text": "History suggests those in power will cling to whatever is working well for them even as the economy and society decay and decohere around them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause, or to undergo decoherence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "decoherence",
          "decoherence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics) To cause, or to undergo decoherence."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/diːkəʊˈhɪə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "decohere"
}

Download raw JSONL data for decohere meaning in English (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (eaa6b66 and a709d4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.