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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The physics of molecular, atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear systems.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The physics of minute masses or of the ultimate particles and structure of matter: opposed to
macrophysics , which deals with bodies taken as a whole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics That
branch ofphysics that deals with objects smaller than amolecule
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Examples
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As it guides our intuitions in microphysics, the No Teleology Principle is not only independent of the thermodynamic asymmetry, but conflicts with the widely-accepted doctrine that the laws of microphysics are insensitive to the distinction between past and future.
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As such, I suggested, any applications of the No Teleology Principle in microphysics should be suspect.
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History should play a time-symmetric role in microphysics.
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I am very familiar with the so called microphysics packages reference on request.
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I am very familiar with the so called microphysics packages reference on request.
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•Amanda Sheffield, Purdue University; home: Elyria, Ohio; major: synoptic meteorology; researched the microphysics of clouds.
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One application is transferring the cloud microphysics subroutine from WRF into CUDA and John Michalakes at NCAR reported a 1.3 speedup.
CUDA with NVIDIA HayleyM 2008
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One application is transferring the cloud microphysics subroutine from WRF into CUDA and John Michalakes at NCAR reported a 1.3 speedup.
Archive 2008-11-01 HayleyM 2008
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This comparison suggests that the radiative impact of water vapor is larger than its effects on chemistry or microphysics.
Factors affecting arctic ozone variability in the Arctic 2009
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Feyerabend was particularly keen to argue that it had not and could not be shown that this interpretation of the theory was a general panacea for the problems of microphysics, or that its defenders could justifiably believe it to be unassailable.
Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009
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