degeneracy
pronunciation
How to pronounce degeneracy in British English:
UK [dɪ'dʒenərəsɪ]
How to pronounce degeneracy in American English:
US [dɪˈdʒɛnərəsi]
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- Noun:
- the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Word Origin
- degeneracy (n.)
- 1660s, from degenerate + -cy.
Example
- 1. Calculating the degeneracy of the multispin coupled quantum state .
- 2. Evolutionary systems biology of innovation and degeneracy in microbes 10:00-11 .
- 3. Degeneracy within the church : not a reason to separate from the church .
- 4. If the gravitational pressure overwhelmed the neutron degeneracy pressure , the neutron star would be crushed into a singularity , producing a black hole .
- 5. Although it had previously been predicted that chaos would be impossible under nearly degenerate conditions , we have recognized that the laser is transformed into chaos as a result of the interplay of beam propagation and gain dynamics as the cavity is tuned close to degeneracy .