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形容詞

virial (not comparable)

1. (mechanics) Of or pertaining to the interactive forces between molecules or particles.

名詞

virial (plural virials)

1. (mechanics) One-half of the product of the stress of attraction or repulsion with the distance between two particles.
   • 1875, James Clerk Maxwell, “On the Dynamical Evidence of the Molecular Constitution of Bodies”, in Nature, 11 (1875), 357-359, 374-377:

     The quantity 1/2 Rr, or half the product of the attraction into the distance across which the attraction is exerted, is defined by Clausis [Prof. Clausis of Bonn] as the virial of the attraction. (In the case of pressure or repulsion, the virial is negative.)

派生語

• virial coefficient
• virial theorem
• virialize
• virialization

関連する語

• vis
• vim

語源 2

形容詞

virial (not comparable)

1. Misspelling of viral.