flying ice cube effect
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
40
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An artifact in molecular dynamics simulations, in which the energy of high-frequency fundamental modes is drained into low-frequency modes, due to repeated rescalings of velocities. In the simulation of particles in vacuum, this results in a conformation reminiscent of a rigid body flying through space.
Inflected Forms
flying ice cube effects (plural)