millikelvin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One thousandth of a kelvin
adj
Of or relating to the temperature range at which temperatures are expressed in millikelvins
noun
Alternative letter-case form of millikelvin.
Example Sentences
- "ILT's device cools samples to several millikelvins, cold enough to freeze helium."
- "This zero-bias maximum disappears as temperature is raised above several hundred millikelvin, in agreement with theory ( 8 ): Because V sd is equal to the separation between the Fermi levels of the two leads, finite V sd splits the Kondo resonance into two peaks."
- "The temperatures required for producing a crystalline solid out of such a "one-component plasma" (3) are in the millikelvin range."
- "These results imply that DNA molecules can be conducting down to millikelvin temperature and that phase coherence is maintained over several hundred nanometers."
Etymology
From milli- + kelvin.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: milli