toda oscillator
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A special kind of nonlinear oscillator, representing a chain of particles with exponential potential interaction between neighbors, and used as a simple model to understand the phenomenon of self-pulsation.
Etymology
Named after Morikazu Toda.
Inflected Forms
Toda oscillators (plural)