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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the spectral lines formed from the splitting of broader spectral lines as a result of the interaction between the magnetic moments of electrons and atomic nuclei.
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- noun physics a closely spaced structure of
lines in thespectrum of anatom ormolecule due tonuclear isotopic effects and/or to nuclearspin
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