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Ehrenfestian

Ehrenfestian adjective: of or relating to Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933), Austrian physicist and mathematician.

Adjective

Ehrenfestian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933), Austrian physicist and mathematician.
    • The impossibility of explaining the Stern-Gerlach result is what he and Ehrenfest tried to show with their “little calculation”. This joint paper had a markedly Ehrenfestian character, as in it, after expounding several arguments, the issue remains open.2016, Enric Pérez, Blai Pié i Valls, “Bohr and Ehrenfest: transformations and correspondences in the early 1920s”, in European Physical Journal H, volume 41, →DOI, page 108

Origin of Ehrenfestian

From Ehrenfest + -ian.

Questions about Ehrenfestian

What does Ehrenfestian mean?
Ehrenfestian means of or relating to Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933), Austrian physicist and mathematician.
What part of speech is Ehrenfestian?
Ehrenfestian is an adjective.

Words near Ehrenfestian in the dictionary

  1. Ehrenfest equations
  2. Ehrenfest model
  3. Ehrenfest models
  4. Ehrenfest paradox
  5. Ehrenfest theorem
  6. Ehrenfestian
  7. Ehrenreich
  8. Ehrenreichs
  9. Ehrenstein illusion
  10. Ehrenstein illusions
  11. Ehresman

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