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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of least possible energy in a physical system, as of elementary particles.
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- noun physics the
stationary state oflowest energy of aparticle orsystem of particles
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- noun (physics) the lowest energy state of an atom or other particle
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