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submillikelvin

submillikelvin adjective: relating to temperatures below one millikelvin.

Adjective

submillikelvin (not comparable)

  1. (attributive) Relating to temperatures below one millikelvin.
    • Light fields from the radiation pressure force and the dipole gradient potential, needed to cool atoms to submillikelvin temperatures, also play an active role in the collision processes themselves.2003, John Weiner, Cold and Ultracold Collisions in Quantum Microscopic and Mesoscopic Systems

Origin of submillikelvin

From sub- + millikelvin.

Questions about submillikelvin

What does submillikelvin mean?
Submillikelvin means relating to temperatures below one millikelvin.
What part of speech is submillikelvin?
Submillikelvin is an adjective.

Words near submillikelvin in the dictionary

  1. submiliary
  2. submilisecond
  3. submillennial
  4. submilliarcsecond
  5. submillihartree
  6. submillikelvin
  7. submillimeter
  8. submillimeter galaxies
  9. submillimeter galaxy
  10. submillimeter wave radiation
  11. submillimeters

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