microstate

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ state.

Noun

microstate (plural microstates)

1. A country that has a very small population and land area.
2. (physics) The specific detailed microscopic configuration of a system.
   • 1989, H. E. Avery, D. John Shaw, Physical Chemistry, page 33:

     However, the number of microstates in which the excess of molecules in one bulb over the number in the other bulb is sufficient to permit the measurement of a pressure difference is a quite discountably small fraction of the total number of microstates.

Antonyms

• (physics): macrostate

Derived terms

• microstate continuum

Translations

a very small country

• Arabic: دُوَيْلَة (duwayla)
• Catalan: microestat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微型國家／微型国家 (zh) (wēixíng guójiā)

• Czech: ministát m, státeček m
• Danish: mikrostat c
• Dutch: dwergstaat (nl), ministaat
• Finnish: kääpiövaltio
• German: Zwergstaat m
• Japanese: マイクロ (ja) (maikuro)
• Russian: ка́рликовое госуда́рство n (kárlikovoje gosudárstvo)
• Spanish: microestado m
• Thai: จุลรัฐ (th) (jun-lá-rát)
• Turkish: mikrodevlet (tr)

microscopic configuration

• Catalan: microestat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微觀狀態／微观状态 (wēiguān zhuàngtài)

• Czech: mikrostav m
• Danish: mikrotilstand c
• Dutch: microtoestand m
• Finnish: mikro-olosuhteet pl
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: микросостоя́ние (ru) n (mikrosostojánije)
• Spanish: microestado m

Anagrams

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