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to thermalize

to thermalize

1 9.2
Make a group of things reach the same temperature by sharing heat
  • verb
  • /ˈθɜrməˌlaɪz/
  • Specialized
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  • The water was then thermalized using the GROMOS code.

Examples

  • So say electron themselves get thermalized with each other.

  • That can be actually very effective to thermalize your system to bring it really very close to your equilibrium distribution.

  • What causes things to become thermalized or to become the thermal equilibrium if I have a box?

  • The initial color glass condensate becomes a gradually thermalizing quark-gluon plasma that eventually cools into a gas of hadrons.

    Academic text (2003)
  • It thermalizes with its surrounding atmosphere (15°C).

    Blog text (18)
  • Early on, the carriers screen the exciters but do not participate in Pauli exclusion. As they thermalize, however, the carriers relax to the bottom of the bands, and the effects of exclusion become visible. (Adapted from ref. 3.)

    Academic text (1994)
  • If the jet quenching already seen at large PT is due to rescattering of particles produced in hard parton scattering, it is very likely that the quark-gluon matter produced in the nuclear collision is thermalized.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Precisely in the regime where device modes become frozen out (and quantum effects begin to emerge), thermal conductance quantization (see PHYSICS TODAY, June 2000, page 17) imposes limits on the rate at which a nanoscale device can thermalize to its environment.

    Academic text (2006)
  • The engineers used a special device to thermalize the reactor to ensure it operates efficiently.

  • To improve the experiment, they decided to thermalize the samples for uniform temperature distribution.

Synonyms

to heat
vsto thermalize
298 1.0

To make something hot or warmer

makes a system reach the same temperature by spreading energy as warmth
to heat up
vsto thermalize
84 1.0

To make something hot or warm

causes parts to reach the same temperature by spreading energy inside

How Thermalized

to thermalize
  • Specialized
1 9.2

Surface Forms

thermalize infinitive
thermalized past participle
thermalizing present participle
thermalizes third person singular

Morphology

thermalize = thermal (transparent) = thermal + ize

The verb is a straightforward verbalization of the adjective 'thermal' using the productive suffix '-ize', meaning 'make or cause to be thermal'.

Etymology

Thermalize comes from the root therm- meaning 'heat' (the same root in thermometer and thermal) and the ending -ize meaning 'to make'. So, to thermalize something is to 'make' its parts share the same heat or to bring them to the same temperature.