megadeformed

English

Etymology

From mega- +‎ deformed.

Adjective

megadeformed (not comparable)

1. Greatly deformed
   • 2016, D. Ray, A. V. Afanasjev, “From superdeformation to extreme deformation and clusterization in the N~Z nuclei of the A~40 mass region”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     For several nuclei in this study (such as $^{36}$Ar), the addition of several spin units above currently measured maximum spin of $16\hbar$ will inevitably trigger the transition to hyper- and megadeformed nuclear shapes..