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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A state of matter that forms below a critical temperature in which all bosons in the matter fall into the same quantum state.
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- noun physics A
gaseous superfluid phase ofmatter in which all the particles have the samequantum state.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein.]
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From the names of Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose, and condensate.
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