单词 | condensed matter |
释义 | condensed mattern. 1. Matter made thicker or denser; spec. matter condensed from a gas or vapour to a solid or liquid. Now rare. ΚΠ 1594 G. Chapman Σκìα Νυκτòς sig. Civ Thy bodie not composed in thy birth, Of such condensed matter as the earth. 1784 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 130 Letting any water into the globe..would have prevented my examining the nature of the condensed matter. 1851 Encycl. Americana V. 138/1 Soot is the condensed matter of smoke. 1859 Sci. Amer. 5 Nov. 301/1 The top portion..becomes a condenser of the oleaginous vapor. This (the top) is inclined towards the neck, to hasten the escape of the condensed matter. 1863 O. M. Mitchel Astron. of Bible iii. 142 The nebulous stars were specimens of the imperfectly condensed matter. 1907 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 79 301 The columnar structure..may have been due eruptive matter, reduced to a linear form by threading the spaces between the condensed matter which forms the faculæ. 2. Physics and Astronomy. Matter in which the constituent atoms or molecules interact strongly and are bound by relatively short-range forces. ΚΠ 1939 Physical Rev. 55 381/1 Either the equation of state we have used..fails to describe the behavior of highly condensed matter..or the star will continue to contract indefinitely. 1953 Science 13 Nov. 590/1 [List of grants] D. C. Moore, Dept. of Physics. Half-life of positrons in condensed matter. 1966 Proc. Royal Soc. 290 174 The present-day average density of condensed matter cannot be greater than ∼ 10−30g/cm3, whereas the theory requires the total present-day intergalactic matter density to be ∼ 10−29g/cm3. 1972 Physics Bull. Dec. 709/1 The only two substances that remain liquid down to the absolute zero obey different statistics..and thus allow us to study the differing effects of quantum statistics on condensed matter. 1992 Sci. News 12 Sept. 175/2 We could have profited much from a deeper study of superconductivity—the preeminent advance in condensed matter physics in this period. 2001 Nature 15 Nov. 261/1 In condensed matter, such as a metal conductor, electrons cannot drift freely. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1594 |
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