Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hypocoercive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hypoco-er-cive
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Hypoelliptic and converging to regularity.

Example Sentences

"By further developing the generalized #92;Gamma-calculus for hypoelliptic operators, we prove hypocoercive estimates for a large class of Kolmogorov type operators which are defined on non necessarily totally geodesic Riemannian foliations."

Etymology

From hypo- + coercive.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: hypo

Questions

What does hypocoercive mean?: Hypoelliptic and converging to regularity.
Where does hypocoercive come from?: From hypo- + coercive.

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