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microstates

microstates is the plural of microstate.

Meaning of microstate

Noun

microstate (plural microstates)

  1. A country that has a very small population and land area.
  2. The specific detailed microscopic configuration of a system.
    • However, the number of microstates in which the excess of molecules in one bulb over the number in the other bulb is sufficient to permit the measurement of a pressure difference is a quite discountably small fraction of the total number of microstates.1989, H. E. Avery, D. John Shaw, Physical Chemistry, page 33

Questions about microstates

What is microstates the plural of?
Microstates is the plural of microstate.

Words near microstates in the dictionary

  1. microstar
  2. microstars
  3. microstate
  4. microstatement
  5. microstatements
  6. microstates
  7. microstatic
  8. microstation
  9. microstations
  10. microstatistical
  11. microstatistics

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