Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hanbury-brown-twiss effect

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English

Syllables: han-bury-brown-twiss -ef-fect
IPA

47

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

6

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a variety of correlation and anticorrelation effects in the intensities received by two detectors from a beam of particles.

Etymology

Named after Robert Hanbury Brown and Richard Q. Twiss.

Inflected Forms

Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effects (plural) Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect (alternative) Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect (alternative)

Questions

What does hanbury-brown-twiss effect mean?: Any of a variety of correlation and anticorrelation effects in the intensities received by two detectors from a beam of particles.
Where does hanbury-brown-twiss effect come from?: Named after Robert Hanbury Brown and Richard Q. Twiss.

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