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metrogenic

metrogenic adjective: discovered by or caused by testing or measurement, and otherwise undetectable.

Adjective

metrogenic (comparative more metrogenic, superlative most metrogenic)

  1. Discovered by or caused by testing or measurement, and otherwise undetectable.
    • My high blood pressure and high cholesterol are metrogenic illnesses.
    • Quantum physics suggests that certain states of subatomic particles are metrogenic: indeterminable until fixed by measurement.

Forms of metrogenic

comparativemore metrogenic
superlativemost metrogenic

Origin of metrogenic

From metro- + -genic.

Questions about metrogenic

What does metrogenic mean?
Metrogenic means discovered by or caused by testing or measurement, and otherwise undetectable.
What part of speech is metrogenic?
Metrogenic is an adjective.

Words near metrogenic in the dictionary

  1. metroethnic
  2. metroethnicities
  3. metroethnicity
  4. metrogaine
  5. metrogaines
  6. metrogenic
  7. metrogon
  8. metrogons
  9. metrograph
  10. metrographs
  11. Metroid-like

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