Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

superphoton

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: su-per-pho-ton
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A photonic Bose-Einstein condensate, comprised of thousands of photons sufficiently concentrated and cooled in an optical well.

Example Sentences

"However, according to the principles of the General Relativity Theory, Sanger’s superphoton man cannot materially exist by lives in a world which has no relation to ours."
"Similar difficulties arise if instead of three “photons” we imagine a single “superphoton” that responds to the numerical sum of all the colour charges."
"Without mentioning Lemaitre, Haldane pictured the universe as originating from one or a few such superphotons of almost infinite energy and sketched from this assumption the entire evolutionary history of matter and life."

Etymology

From super- + photon.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: super

Inflected Forms

superphotons (plural) super-photon (alternative)

Questions

What does superphoton mean?: A photonic Bose-Einstein condensate, comprised of thousands of photons sufficiently concentrated and cooled in an optical well.
Where does superphoton come from?: From super- + photon.

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