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quasiuniversal

quasiuniversal adjective: being nearly or almost universal; existing in the vast majority of typical conditions.

Adjective

quasiuniversal (not comparable)

  1. Being nearly or almost universal; existing in the vast majority of typical conditions.
    • This long-lived transient regime implies that thermal equilibrium may be out of reach of the time scales accessible in present cold atom experiments but shows that an interesting new quasiuniversal transient state exists in nonequilibrium governed by a thermalized kinetic energy but not a...2012, K Mikelsons, J K Freericks, H R Krishnamurthy, “Quasiuniversal transient behavior of a nonequilibrium Mott insulator driven by an electric field”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 109, number...
    • The quasiuniversality is a property of the conservative dynamics; nontrivial relations emerge as the binary interaction becomes tidally dominated.2014, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Alessandro Nagar, Simone Balmelli, Tim Dietrich, Maximiliano Ujevic, “Quasiuniversal properties of neutron star mergers”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 112, number 20...

Origin of quasiuniversal

From quasi- (“almost, virtually”) + universal.

Words formed from quasiuniversal

Questions about quasiuniversal

What does quasiuniversal mean?
Quasiuniversal means being nearly or almost universal; existing in the vast majority of typical conditions.
What part of speech is quasiuniversal?
Quasiuniversal is an adjective.

Words near quasiuniversal in the dictionary

  1. quasitubular
  2. quasiuniform
  3. quasiuniformity
  4. quasiuniformly
  5. quasiunipotent
  6. quasiuniversal
  7. quasiuniversality
  8. quasiuniversally
  9. quasivacua
  10. quasivacuum
  11. quasivarieties

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