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单词 singlet
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Definition of singlet in English:

singlet

noun ˈsɪŋɡlɪtˈsɪŋɡlət
  • 1British A sleeveless garment worn under or instead of a shirt; a vest.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Equally as beautiful as his womenswear, this featured plain white singlets studded with gold sequins, low-slung cream trousers and kimono print shirts.
    • Winter has settled in, you're not wearing a singlet under your business shirt and you have your first sneeze… she thinks you caught pneumonia and you're going to die.
    • Tommy is wearing a baseball cap, a singlet and combat shorts, revealing several tattoos.
    • Others had on only singlets and cotton trousers as they jumped into the water.
    • Alas, after a while, the sight of board shorts, singlets, jandals and sunglasses will make you wince.
  • 2Physics
    A single unresolvable line in a spectrum, not part of a multiplet.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Superimposing such a diffractive structure on an aspheric surface yields an achromatic singlet whose spherical and chromatic aberrations are corrected.
    • The singlet is detectable as a quintet at room temperature in methemoglobin with identical spectral features to those of the well characterized tyrosyl radical in photosystem II.
    • To break supersymmetry using the F-term, one can add chiral multiplets that transform as singlets under the gauge symmetries in the theory.
    1. 2.1 A state or energy level with zero spin, giving a single value for a particular quantum number.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Its superconductivity is often assumed to be unconventional in that the Cooper pairs are not in a spin singlet state with s-wave symmetry, as with conventional superconductors.
      • Energy can be transferred from the singlet state to the triplet state via intersystem crossing.
      • A small singlet-triplet energy gap is known to favor intersystem crossing.
      • The reorganizational energy of the singlet ET was also calculated from the temperature-dependent data and found to be 0.89 eV.
      • Do aggregates of A2E have a higher singlet-oxygen quantum yield rather than monomers?
  • 3Chemistry
    An atomic or molecular state in which all electron spins are paired.

    as modifier singlet oxygen
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It can thus be regarded as a simultaneous excitation of two triplets, whose coupling generates an overall singlet state.
    • And where does the singlet oxygen, the energy source, come from?
    • However, reactive oxygen species generated by UVA radiation, particularly singlet oxygen, can also damage nucleic acids.
    • The origin of the initial spike observed upon detection of singlet oxygen luminescence remains unresolved.
    • The study of the excited states properties has shown that its photoreactivity in neutral aqueous medium is singlet initiated.

Origin

Mid 18th century (originally denoting a man's short jacket): from single (because the garment was unlined) + -et1, on the pattern of doublet.

 
 

Definition of singlet in US English:

singlet

nounˈsiNGɡlətˈsɪŋɡlət
  • 1British A sleeveless garment worn under or instead of a shirt.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Winter has settled in, you're not wearing a singlet under your business shirt and you have your first sneeze… she thinks you caught pneumonia and you're going to die.
    • Others had on only singlets and cotton trousers as they jumped into the water.
    • Tommy is wearing a baseball cap, a singlet and combat shorts, revealing several tattoos.
    • Alas, after a while, the sight of board shorts, singlets, jandals and sunglasses will make you wince.
    • Equally as beautiful as his womenswear, this featured plain white singlets studded with gold sequins, low-slung cream trousers and kimono print shirts.
  • 2Physics
    A single unresolvable line in a spectrum, not part of a multiplet.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To break supersymmetry using the F-term, one can add chiral multiplets that transform as singlets under the gauge symmetries in the theory.
    • Superimposing such a diffractive structure on an aspheric surface yields an achromatic singlet whose spherical and chromatic aberrations are corrected.
    • The singlet is detectable as a quintet at room temperature in methemoglobin with identical spectral features to those of the well characterized tyrosyl radical in photosystem II.
    1. 2.1 A state or energy level with zero spin, giving a single value for a particular quantum number.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Do aggregates of A2E have a higher singlet-oxygen quantum yield rather than monomers?
      • Energy can be transferred from the singlet state to the triplet state via intersystem crossing.
      • The reorganizational energy of the singlet ET was also calculated from the temperature-dependent data and found to be 0.89 eV.
      • Its superconductivity is often assumed to be unconventional in that the Cooper pairs are not in a spin singlet state with s-wave symmetry, as with conventional superconductors.
      • A small singlet-triplet energy gap is known to favor intersystem crossing.
  • 3Chemistry
    An atomic or molecular state in which all electron spins are paired.

    as modifier singlet oxygen
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The study of the excited states properties has shown that its photoreactivity in neutral aqueous medium is singlet initiated.
    • The origin of the initial spike observed upon detection of singlet oxygen luminescence remains unresolved.
    • It can thus be regarded as a simultaneous excitation of two triplets, whose coupling generates an overall singlet state.
    • And where does the singlet oxygen, the energy source, come from?
    • However, reactive oxygen species generated by UVA radiation, particularly singlet oxygen, can also damage nucleic acids.

Origin

Mid 18th century (originally denoting a man's short jacket): from single (because the garment was unlined) + -et, on the pattern of doublet.

 
 
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