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antistretching

antistretching noun: characterized by a decrease of the quadrupole deformation.

Noun

antistretching (uncountable)

  1. Characterized by a decrease of the quadrupole deformation.
    • 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 antistretching

What does antistretching mean?
Antistretching means characterized by a decrease of the quadrupole deformation.
What part of speech is antistretching?
Antistretching is a noun.

Words near antistretching in the dictionary

  1. antistreptolysins
  2. antistress
  3. antistressor
  4. antistressors
  5. antistretch
  6. antistretching
  7. antistrike
  8. antistriker
  9. antistrikers
  10. antistrip
  11. antistripping

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