effective energy

English

Noun

effective energy (plural effective energies)

1. (physics) The energy of a heterogeneous (polychromatic) photon beam calculated as if it were monochromatic
   • 1995, Arthur I. Miller, Early Quantum Electrodynamics:

     Consequently the ‘intuitive' theory can be taken directly into the quantum theory of waves, including the nonlinear effective energy density . . .