Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hughes-drever experiment

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English

Syllables: hugh-es--drever -ex-per-i-ment
IPA

44

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

8

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various spectroscopic tests of the isotropy of mass and space, originally to test Mach's principle and now understood to be important tests of Lorentz invariance.

Etymology

Named after Vernon W. Hughes and Ronald Drever, who independently conducted experiments of this kind in the early 1960s.

Inflected Forms

Hughes-Drever experiments (plural)

Questions

What does hughes-drever experiment mean?: Any of various spectroscopic tests of the isotropy of mass and space, originally to test Mach's principle and now understood to be important tests of Lorentz invariance.
Where does hughes-drever experiment come from?: Named after Vernon W. Hughes and Ronald Drever, who independently conducted experiments of this kind in the early 1960s.

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