"spin glass" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: spin glasses [plural]
Etymology: From an analogy between the magnetic disorder in a spin glass and the positional disorder of conventional glass. Head templates: {{en-noun}} spin glass (plural spin glasses)
  1. (physics) Any material in which the atomic spins are oriented at disordered but fixed directions Wikipedia link: spin glass Categories (topical): Physics

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