Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of length equal to one femtometer (10−15 meter).
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- noun A unit of length equal to one
femtometer orfemtometre (10−15 m).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Example: for some problems nuclear physicists and chemists use the fermi liquid drop model of the nucleus…for others, the nuclear shell model.
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Non avete scampo, se non forse “fermare il riscaldamento globale prima che lui fermi noi”…
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I militari stanno eseguendo 99 fermi ordinati dai pm della Direzione distrettuale antimafia.
[blitz antimafia] in diverse città della sicilia e in toscana 2008
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I militari stanno eseguendo 99 fermi ordinati dai pm della Direzione distrettuale antimafia.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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I remember giving the right answers, namely that the experiments showed the current theory of localization to be wrong in strong magnetic fields, and that there had to be a band of extended states below the fermi level carrying the current.
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Wheeler had calculated the 2p-1s transition energy in Pb, using the then accepted nuclear radius 1.4 A1/3 fermi, to be around 4.5 MeV.
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Subite Klime vidas, ke antauxe ekmovigxas io, lumaj punktoj brilas kaj lin renkontas: la bestaro elsendis kelkajn lupojn por fermi lian iradon ...
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
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In Obrecht's composition the three melodic phrases are, in a most ingenious manner, made to serve as canti fermi, and, by skilful combining of the various voices and letting them unite, as a rule, only on the utterances of the turba, variety is maintained.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Vittoria, retains the plain-chant melodies for single persons and makes them serve, after the manner of Obrecht, as canti fermi in the ensemble.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Not content with having secular melodies employed as _canti fermi_ in the music sung to the words of the mass, the words of these secular songs themselves were often written in and sung by a majority of the singers in the choir, only those in the front rows singing the solemn words of the ecclesiastical office.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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