degenerate state

American  

noun

1. Physics. Usually degenerate states. a quantum state of a system, having the same energy level as, but a different wave function from, another state of the system.

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Etymology

Origin of degenerate state

First recorded in 1925–30

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degenerate state

Islamism in these vast territories is in an exceedingly degenerate state when compared with either its first development in the Arabian desert, or with what now obtains in Turkey.

From History of the Moors of Spain by M. Florian

In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin

Anna Byns, an oracle with the Catholic party, wrote when the language was in its most degenerate state, under Margaret of Austria.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 by Various

This degenerate state of the foot has other complications.

From Rational Horse-Shoeing by John E. Russell

In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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