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interatom

interatom adjective: occurring between atoms.

Adjective

interatom (not comparable)

  1. Occurring between atoms.
    • The two photons from the two atoms are jointly measured with a beam splitter, which mixes the two input photons, and the atom-photon entanglement is transferred to interatom entanglement, which is the entanglement swap.2009 January 23, M. S. Kim, Jaeyoon Cho, “PHYSICS: Teleporting a Quantum State to Distant Matter”, in Science, volume 323, number 5913, →DOI

Origin of interatom

From inter- + atom.

Questions about interatom

What does interatom mean?
Interatom means occurring between atoms.
What part of speech is interatom?
Interatom is an adjective.

Words near interatom in the dictionary

  1. interastrocytic
  2. interathere
  3. interatheres
  4. interatheriid
  5. interatheriids
  6. interatom
  7. interatomic
  8. interatomically
  9. interatrial
  10. interattraction
  11. interattractions

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