formfactor
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of various calculations representing the shape or distribution of a physical property within a microsystem such as an elementary particle or atomic nucleus.
noun
The value of 4π * area / perimeter², used to measure how well an irregular shape approximates an idealized regular shape, and used to estimate surface area of irregular shapes.
noun
The ratio of energy radiating out from one patch to the energy absorbed by another patch, used in the calculation of radiosity.
noun
An industry standard that represents the size and shape of a circuit board.
Example Sentences
- "This electromagnetic structure caused by the cloud of virtual states in the transition region is characterized by a specific formfactor, which is called the transition formfactor."
- "Dilepton spectroscopy could also give interesting information on the electromagnetic formfactor for baryons where the situation is more complicated since for these the time-like sector is not accessible below an invariant mass of 2mp;"
- "Using the known values of the nucleon formfactors the pion formfactor can in principle be determined as the only free parameter in a fit to the cross section of electro-π⁺-production."
- "All diagrams in a given-order formfactor are similar. They all are integrals over the momentum circulating in the loop, and the integrands are identical."
- "The general trend one has found in varying the off-shell behaviour of the two-nucleon interaction while keeping the on-shell properties the same is that though one can in principle increase the binding energy, the dip in the formfactor moves at the same time to larger momentum transfer and as a result the discrepancy in the secondary maximum increases."
- "We calculate the threshold singularities in one-dimensional models using the universal low-energy formfactors obtained in the framework of the non-linear Luttinger liquid model."