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mesosonic

mesosonic adjective: describing motion through a two-phase medium, usually electrons and heavy ions, at a speed between the speeds of sound in the two components.

Adjective

mesosonic (not comparable)

  1. Describing motion through a two-phase medium, usually electrons and heavy ions, at a speed between the speeds of sound in the two components.
    • In space plasmas, spacecraft usually encounter mesosonic flows, i.e. flows which are supersonic with respect to the ion thermal speed, but subsonic with respect to the electron thermal speed.2007, Anders I. Eriksson et al., “Spacecraft wakes in the solar wind”, in Proceedings of the 10th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference, June 18-21, 2007

Origin of mesosonic

From meso- + sonic.

Questions about mesosonic

What does mesosonic mean?
Mesosonic means describing motion through a two-phase medium, usually electrons and heavy ions, at a speed between the speeds of sound in the two components.
What part of speech is mesosonic?
Mesosonic is an adjective.

Words near mesosonic in the dictionary

  1. mesosomal
  2. mesosomas
  3. mesosome
  4. mesosomes
  5. mesosomic
  6. mesosonic
  7. mesosperm
  8. mesospermalege
  9. mesospermaleges
  10. mesosphenoid
  11. mesosphere

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