microstate

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Etymology

micro- + state

Noun

microstate (plural microstates)

  1. A country that has a very small population and land area.
  2. (physics) The specific detailed microscopic configuration of a system.
    • 1989, H. E. Avery, D. John Shaw, Physical Chemistry, page 33:
      However, the number of microstates in which the excess of molecules in one bulb over the number in the other bulb is sufficient to permit the measurement of a pressure difference is a quite discountably small fraction of the total number of microstates.

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  • microstate continuum

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