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campylon

campylon noun: a localized metric perturbation in an intrinsicly curved medium.

Noun

campylon

  1. A localized metric perturbation in an intrinsicly curved medium.
    • We find that the flux depends only on a specific combination of campylon parameters, which we identify as the average campylon strength, and derive a universal flux law for the Poiseuille flow.2015, J.-D. Debus, M. Mendoza, S. Succi, H. J. Herrmann, “Poiseuille flow in curved spaces”, in arXiv

Questions about campylon

What does campylon mean?
Campylon means a localized metric perturbation in an intrinsicly curved medium.
What part of speech is campylon?
Campylon is a noun.

Words near campylon in the dictionary

  1. campylobacterium
  2. campylobacterosis
  3. campylobacters
  4. campylomorph
  5. campylomorphs
  6. campylon
  7. campylophage
  8. campylophages
  9. campylospermous
  10. campylotropal
  11. campylotropous

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