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anticrossing

anticrossing is the present participle and gerund of anticross.

Meaning of anticross

Verb

anticross (third-person singular simple present anticrosses, present participle anticrossing, simple past and past participle anticrossed)

  1. (quantum mechanics) To fail to cross in a graph of energy vs. electric field strength; characteristic of coherent superposition states
    • When the mixing becomes resonant, the phonon sideband anticrosses with the excited exciton state.1998, Lev Zimin et al., “LO Phonon Renormalization in Optically Excited CuCl Nanocrystals”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 80, number 14

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Noun

anticrossing (plural anticrossings)

  1. (quantum mechanics) A failure to cross in a graph of energy vs. electric field strength.

Forms of anticrossing

pluralanticrossings

Questions about anticrossing

What does anticrossing mean?
Anticrossing means a failure to cross in a graph of energy vs. electric field strength.
What is anticrossing the present participle and gerund of?
Anticrossing is the present participle and gerund of anticross.
What part of speech is anticrossing?
Anticrossing is a noun.
What is the plural of anticrossing?
The plural of anticrossing is anticrossings.

Words near anticrossing in the dictionary

  1. anticritiques
  2. anticrop
  3. anticross
  4. anticrossed
  5. anticrosses
  6. anticrossing
  7. anticrossings
  8. anticrotalic
  9. anticrowd
  10. anticrowding
  11. anticruelty

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