energy state
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- noun
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estado energético
- Higher bands offered greater effective speeds, but at the cost of increasingly unstable energy states and consequently increasing risk to the ship.
- low-energy state
- high energy state
- minimum energy state
And so this is, this is then the lowest energy state of benzene.
- And so this is, this is then the lowest energy state of benzene.
- Well, you've filled up the two lowest energy states.
- And so Dirac said, OK, you know what, all these negative energy states are filled orbits occupied.
- So water would rather hydrogen bond with itself, that's a lower energy state chemically than interacting with these.
- Now in a spin, which can be up the low energy state or down the high energy state, you can flip the spin by hitting it with a photon.
Examples
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Its lowest-energy state is a singlet in which both electrons and both holes occupy the lowest-energy orbital state.
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And yeah, crystals are the lowest energy state of their configuration.
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The next highest energy state would be like this.
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What they do... is they will sit up in this higher energy state... and then drop down again.
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The lowest energy state of space is not zero but a quantum of energy above zero.
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Hey, that's a rather high energy state for those electrons.
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At low temperatures, all the atoms of a star's atmosphere would occupy their lowest energy states.
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In a symmetry-breaking phase transition, different regions of the universe will choose to fall into different energy states.
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If one follows the fluid metaphor, fluids flow from high energy to low energy states.
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The lowest energy state of space is not zero but a quantum of energy above zero.
Synonyms
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A fixed amount of power that an electron in an atom can have
How High
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is largely compositional: combining 'energy' with 'state' yields the idea of a condition or level of energy, so a learner who knows both words can approximate the concept. However, the term is technical (quantum/physics) and 'state' here has a specialized sense (discrete energy levels) that may not be fully predictable from the everyday definition, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Energy state comes from the simple image of tiny particles, like electrons, standing on fixed steps inside an atom. Each step is a single energy state — a 'fixed energy level' — and when a particle jumps between steps it must take in or give off energy, so the term means a definite and stable amount of energy the system can have.