million electron volts

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noun Physics.

a unit of energy equal to the energy acquired by an electron in falling through a potential of 106 volts. Abbreviations: MeV, Mev, mev

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Also megaelectron volt.

Origin of million electron volts

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby million electron volts

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It was a very faithful homage to a Six Million Dollar Man episode.
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According to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.
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In 2008, Huckabee raised a little over $16 million, with less than $55,000 coming from political action committees.
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By contrast, John McCain, the eventual GOP nominee, had raised approximately $12.7 million in the first quarter of 2007 alone.
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The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant, restless water.
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Clodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.
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We were then nine million small arm still to the good having spent eleven million.
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In the first place, there is an immediate and urgent demand for at least Half a Million comfortable rain-proof dwellings.
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