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Compton wavelengths

Compton wavelengths is the plural of Compton wavelength.

Meaning of Compton wavelength

Noun

Compton wavelength (plural Compton wavelengths)

  1. (quantum mechanics) Of a particle, the wavelength of a photon whose energy is equivalent to that particle's rest energy.

Questions about Compton wavelengths

What is Compton wavelengths the plural of?
Compton wavelengths is the plural of Compton wavelength.

Words near Compton wavelengths in the dictionary

  1. Compton effects
  2. Compton Pauncefoot
  3. Compton scattering
  4. Compton shift
  5. Compton wavelength
  6. Compton wavelengths
  7. Comptonite
  8. Comptonization
  9. Comptonizations
  10. comptop
  11. comptopped

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