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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wave propagated through a crystal lattice as a result of shifts in atomic magnetic fields associated with the spin angular momentum of electrons in the lattice.
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- noun physics a wave, propagated through a
crystal lattice as a result of changes in the spin angular momentum ofelectrons in the lattice
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