Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

virial coefficient

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English

Syllables: viri-al -co-ef-fi-cient
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a number of coefficients in the virial expansion of the pressure of a many-particle system in powers of the density, providing systematic corrections to the ideal gas law.

Inflected Forms

virial coefficients (plural)

Questions

What does virial coefficient mean?: Any of a number of coefficients in the virial expansion of the pressure of a many-particle system in powers of the density, providing systematic corrections to the ideal gas law.

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