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

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

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

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

This degenerate state of the foot has other complications.

From Rational Horse-Shoeing by John E. Russell

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