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z-pinch

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables
z-pinch
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of plasma confinement system that uses an electrical current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field that compresses it.

Etymology

Z refers to the direction of the current in the devices, the z-axis on a normal three-dimensional graph.

Inflected Forms

Z-pinches (plural)

Synonyms

zeta pinch

Questions

What does z-pinch mean?
A kind of plasma confinement system that uses an electrical current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field that compresses it.
Where does z-pinch come from?
Z refers to the direction of the current in the devices, the z-axis on a normal three-dimensional graph.

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