| 单词 |
multipolarity |
| 释义 |
multipolarity|mʌltɪpəʊˈlærɪtɪ|
[f. prec. + -ity.]
a. Multipolar quality or state.
1947Hereditas XXXIII. 468 The anaphases..all showed serious disturbances, lagging chromosomes, multipolarity..and so on. 1950Ibid. XXXVI. 395 Multipolarity seems..to be fairly independent of the chromosome number in that highly polyploid bipolar as well as multipolar configurations which contain low chromosome numbers are found. 1968Guardian 4 Dec. 2/3 NATO..has yet to adjust to the political multipolarity of the late sixties. 1969Punch 5 Mar. 329/2 Henry Kissinger..has already summed up the Soames affair as an example of ‘political multipolarity’, spoken of the problems of ‘a pluralist world’... All good stuff, if we knew what it meant.
b. Physics. The highest order of multipole associated with a state or phenomenon.
1955Physical Rev. XCVIII. 1198/1 (heading) Multipolarity of gamma transitions in F19 and Na23 by Coulomb excitation. 1973Nature 31 Aug. 541/1 There have been speculations that other giant resonances with other multipolarities might exist; for example, quadrupole motions in which the nucleon distributions oscillate between prolate and oblate shapes with quadrupole deformations. |
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