noun

1. Very high frequency (and therefore very high energy) electromagnetic radiation emitted as a consequence of radioactivity.

noun

1. (physics) a universal constant, R, that appears in the ideal gas law, (PV = nRT), derived from two fundamental constants, the Boltzman constant and Avogadro's number, (R = N_Ak)

adjective

1. Relating to, or existing as, gas.
2. Of a liquid containing bubbles: gassy.
3. tenuous, Tenuous or indefinite.

verb (gasif, i, ed)

1. To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.

noun

1. The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
2. Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc
3. That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspring.
4. A period of around thirty years, the average amount of time before a child takes the place of its parents.
5. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy, or collectively the body of people who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one time.

Quotations

• This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
  

• Ye shall remain there in Babylon many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
  

• All generations and ages of the Christian church - Hooker
  1. Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

Quotations

• Thy mother's of my ; what's she, if I be a dog? - Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, I-iii
  1. (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
  2. (biology) "The aggregate of the functions and phenomena which attend reproduction.

There are four modes of generation in the animal kingdom: scissiparity or by fissiparous generation, gemmiparity or by budding, germiparity or by germs, and oviparity or by ova"

noun

1. (Meteorology). The work that must be done at a given altitude in raising a unit mass from sea level to that altitude against the earth's gravitational field.

noun (wikipedia, Electric glow discharge)

1. a form of electrical conduction in low pressure gases (plasmas) that emits light

noun

1. (particles) A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force.

noun

1. (physics) A theory that unifies the electromagnetic interaction, the weak interaction, and the strong interaction.

noun

1. A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
2. A frame of iron bars to hold a fire

verb

1. (present participle of, grate)

adjective

1. (typically of a voice) harsh and unpleasant

verb (gravitat, ing)

1. (intransitive) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.

Children naturally to such a big, friendly man.

noun

1. (physics) the field produced by the gravitational force of mass

noun

1. (particles) A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.

noun

1. resultant force on Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation
2. gravitation, universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other<br> (In casual discussion, gravity and gravitation are often used interchangeably).
3. The state or condition of being grave (graveness).

See article about w:Gravity, Gravity on wikipedia.

proper noun

1. A common English surname; either a topographic name for someone who lived near a village green, or was just fond of the colour

noun

1. (physics) the stationary state of lowest energy of a particle or system of particles

noun

1. (physics) the propagation velocity of the envelope of a modulated travelling wave, which is considered as the propagation velocity of information or energy contained in it.

initialism

1. grand unification theory, Grand unification theory.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resulting from the properties of a spinning magnet, or a spinning electric charge

noun

1. (physics) the ratio of the angular momentum to the magnetic moment in an atom etc