Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

weaire-phelan structure

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: weaire-phe-lan struc-ture
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A three-dimensional structure representing an idealized foam of equal-sized bubbles, with two different shapes.

Etymology

Named after Denis Weaire and Robert Phelan, who in 1993 found that this structure was a better solution to the Kelvin problem of tiling space by equal-volume cells of minimum surface area than the previous best-known solution, the Kelvin structure.

Inflected Forms

Weaire-Phelan structures (plural)

Questions

What does weaire-phelan structure mean?: A three-dimensional structure representing an idealized foam of equal-sized bubbles, with two different shapes.
Where does weaire-phelan structure come from?: Named after Denis Weaire and Robert Phelan, who in 1993 found that this structure was a better solution to the Kelvin problem of tiling space by equal-volume cells of minimum surface area than the previous best-known solution, the Kelvin structure.

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