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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nonnegative integer that specifies the magnitude of the spin angular momentum vector of a subatomic particle.
- noun An integer that specifies the direction of the spin angular momentum vector of a subatomic particle.
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- noun physics A
quantum number that specifies thespin of a particle; for anelectron , it may only take the values ±1/2
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