🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

macroestado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: macroestado

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Macrostate/ˈmæk.roʊ.steɪt/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O macroestado engloba várias configurações microscópicas possíveis."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The condition of a physical system as determined by macroscopic parameters such as temperature, pressure, and volume, without regard to the detailed states of its individual particles.

    "A single macrostate can correspond to a vast number of different microstates."
  2. 2

    An overall condition or configuration of a complex system considered at a high level of abstraction.

    "The economic model successfully tracks the macrostate of the global market."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combining form 'macro-' (from Greek makros, meaning 'large' or 'long') combined with 'state' (from Latin status, meaning 'condition' or 'position'). The term was coined in the late 19th century within statistical mechanics to describe the macroscopic properties of a thermodynamic system.

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