microstate

microstate

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ state

Noun

microstate (plural microstates)

1. A country that has a very small population and land area.
2. (physics) The specific detailed microscopic configuration of a system.
   • 1989, H. E. Avery, ‎D. John Shaw, Physical Chemistry (page 33)

     However, the number of microstates in which the excess of molecules in one bulb over the number in the other bulb is sufficient to permit the measurement of a pressure difference is a quite discountably small fraction of the total number of microstates.

Antonyms

• (physics): macrostate

Derived terms

• microstate continuum

Translations

a very small country

Catalan: microestat m Chinese: Mandarin: 微型國家／微型国家 (wēixíng guójiā) Czech: ministát m, státeček m Danish: mikrostat c Dutch: dwergstaat (nl), ministaat Finnish: kääpiövaltio German: Zwergstaat m Japanese: マイクロ (ja) (maikuro) Russian: ка́рликовое госуда́рство n (kárlikovoje gosudárstvo) Spanish: microestado m Thai: จุลรัฐ (th) (jun-lá-rát) Turkish: mikrodevlet

microscopic configuration

Catalan: microestat m Chinese: Mandarin: 微觀狀態／微观状态 (wēiguān zhuàngtài) Czech: mikrostav m Danish: mikrotilstand c Dutch: microtoestand m Finnish: mikro-olosuhteet pl Japanese: please add this translation if you can Russian: микросостоя́ние (ru) n (mikrosostojánije) Spanish: microestado m

Anagrams

• tetrasomic