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Plancks

Plancks is the plural of Planck.

Meaning of Planck

Noun

Planck (plural Plancks)

  1. Used attributively in the names of various units, formulae etc. first devised or worked on by the German physicist Max Planck (1858–1947), chiefly in the realm of quantum theory.
    • As Dr. Feynman noted, there are still shorter scales of time and distance to go before we reach the ultimate limits imposed by quantum physics: the Planck length, 10^-33 of a centimeter, and the Planck time, 10^-43 of a second. Both are named for the German physicist Max Planck, who made the...2023 October 9, Dennis Overbye, “The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023
  2. A Planck unit.

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Questions about Plancks

What is Plancks the plural of?
Plancks is the plural of Planck.

Words near Plancks in the dictionary

  1. Planck's constant
  2. Planck's principle
  3. Planckian
  4. planckon
  5. planckons
  6. Plancks
  7. Plancoët
  8. plancti
  9. planctomycete
  10. planctomycetes
  11. planctonic

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