million electron volts

American  

noun

Physics.

1. a unit of energy equal to the energy acquired by an electron in falling through a potential of 10 6 volts. MeV, Mev, mev

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Etymology

Origin of million electron volts

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Splitting one uranium atom releases about 200 million electron volts.

From Literature

Two years ago, Safdi and his colleagues put the best upper limit on the mass of the QCD axion at about 16 million electron volts, or about 32 times less than the mass of the electron.

From Science Daily

Although that amount of energy is miniscule by everyday standards, the increase occurred as the electrons traveled only three one-hundredths of a millimeter—equivalent to them gaining about 30 million electron volts over the course of a meter.

From Scientific American

She estimates that 1,000 stages could fit on a chip a couple of centimeters in length and imbue electrons with a million electron volts’ worth of energy, allowing them to travel at about 94 percent of the speed of light.

From Scientific American

Radio-sodium had a gratifyingly lengthy half-life of fifteen and a half hours and gamma ray energies that Ernest calculated at about 5 million electron volts.

From Literature