bec
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- noun
- Archaic
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pico
- More than a year ago, experimenters saw a BEC in molecules made of fermionic atoms (see PHYSICS TODAY, October 2003, page 18).
Examples
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The hummingbird's bec is perfectly adapted for sipping nectar from flowers.
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To help with that alignment, the MIT researchers practiced by forming vortices in a sodium BEC—a much easier task.
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Research on gaseous BEC can be divided into two areas.
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The rapid pace of developments in atomic BEC during the last few years has taken the physics community by surprise.
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The paired state, like the BEC, would be a superfluid.
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In this article, I sketch the underlying concepts of atomic BEC and describe some of the recent experimental advances.
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An attractive feature of BEC in dilute atomic gases is that it can be theoretically described from first principles.
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Interactions then localize the atoms and prevent BEC; the only exception is liquid helium.
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The occupation of low-energy states near the transition point spoils pure BEC in uniform gases.
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Many researchers dream one day of taking a system of particles smoothly from a molecular BEC to a BCS-type superfluid.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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1.0
The hard pointed part of a bird's mouth used to eat and pick up food
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3.6
A hard mouth part on a bird used to eat and groom
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6.8
A bird's hard mouth part used for pecking and eating
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bec comes from the French word bec, which means 'beak' like a bird's mouth and is the same idea behind the English word beak. So a bec is a beak-shaped part, for example the spout of a teapot.