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absolute zero

phys. Lowest possible temperature that any substance can have; the temperature at which the atoms of a substance have their minimum kinetic energy. The temperature of absolute zero is -273.15ºC, […]

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absolutism

phil. The acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters. ཆབ་སྲིད་དམ། ལྟ་གྲུབ། བཟང་སྤྱོད། ཡང་ན་ཆོས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་གནད་དོན་ཐད་ལ་ཚུགས་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རྩ་འཛིན་ཡོད་པའི་ཁས་ལེན་ནམ་ཡིད་ཆེས།

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absolutist

phil. A person who holds absolute principles in political, philosophical, or theological matters. ཆབ་སྲིད་དམ། ལྟ་གྲུབ། ཡང་ན་ཆོས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་གནད་དོན་ཐད་ལ་ཚུགས་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རྩ་འཛིན་ཡོད་པར་འདོད་མཁན་གྱི་གང་ཟག

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absorption

phys. 1. The take-up of a gas by a solid or liquid, or the take-up of a liquid by a solid. 2. The conversion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation, […]

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absorption line

phys. Dark lines that appear in an absorption spectrum. The pattern of lines is unique for each element. ཐིམ་པའི་འོད་ཤལ་གྱི་ནང་དུ་མངོན་པའི་ཐིག་ནག་པོ་དག་ལ་གོ ཁམས་རྫས་མི་འདྲ་བར་བསྡུ་ཐིག་གི་བཀོད་རིས་མི་འདྲ་བ་ཡོད།

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absorption spectrum

phys. Continuous spectrum, like that generated by white light, interrupted by dark lines or bands that result from the absorption of light of certain frequencies by a substance through which […]

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absorptivity

phys. Symbol α. The ratio of the radiant or luminous flux absorbed by a body to the flux falling on it. Formerly called absorptivity, the absorptance of a *black body […]

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abstract

phil. 1. Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. 2. In scientific literature, the brief summary of the main ideas of an […]

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