diocotron instability
/daɪˈɑk.ə.tɹɑn/
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Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
12
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Meaning
noun
A plasma instability created by two sheets of charge slipping past each other, in which energy is dissipated in the form of two surface waves propagating in opposite directions, one flowing over the other.