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subrecoil

subrecoil adjective: below the "recoil limit", the lowest temperature reachable in traditional forms of laser cooling.

Adjective

subrecoil (not comparable)

  1. Below the "recoil limit", the lowest temperature reachable in traditional forms of laser cooling.

Origin of subrecoil

From sub- + recoil.

Questions about subrecoil

What does subrecoil mean?
Subrecoil means below the "recoil limit", the lowest temperature reachable in traditional forms of laser cooling.
What part of speech is subrecoil?
Subrecoil is an adjective.

Words near subrecoil in the dictionary

  1. subreceiver
  2. subreceivers
  3. subrecent
  4. subrecipient
  5. subrecipients
  6. subrecoil
  7. subrecommendation
  8. subrecommendations
  9. subrectangle
  10. subrectangles
  11. subrectangular

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