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antipairing

antipairing noun: characterized by a decrease in pairing correlations.

Noun

antipairing (uncountable)

  1. Characterized by a decrease in pairing correlations.
    • The second sample I would like to mention concerns the variation of intrinsic states while rotating a nucleus faster and faster, that is, the so-called antistretching and antipairing effects.1973, Jan de Boer, H. J. Mang, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Physics, Munich, August 27-September 1, 1973: Invited papers, page 113
    • It is shown that there is a clear decrease of the pairing correlations (antipairing) and a decrease of the quadrupole deformation (antistretching) with increasing angular momentum.1974, Nuclear Science Abstracts, page 3114

Questions about antipairing

What does antipairing mean?
Antipairing means characterized by a decrease in pairing correlations.
What part of speech is antipairing?
Antipairing is a noun.

Words near antipairing in the dictionary

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  3. antipaedobaptists
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  5. antipain
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  9. antipamozole
  10. antipandemic
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