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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Example Sentences

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degenerate state

It offered one more assurance, had I needed it, of the degenerate state of the civilization upon which I was turning my back.

From Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock

This degenerate state of the foot has other complications.

From Rational Horse-Shoeing by John E. Russell

He died regretted by the army, detested by the senate, but universally acknowledged as a warlike and fortunate prince, the useful, though severe reformer of a degenerate state.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman

She was once the noblest of peoples: will you let contemporary history register for the ages her now degenerate state?

From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá

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

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