mesostate (English, noun)
expansion: mesostate (plural mesostates)
Senses:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An intermediate physical state of matter between solid and liquid, in which the molecules have more freedom of movement than when locked in a crystal lattice, but less freedom of movement than when in the liquid state.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: A composite state of a physical system that is determined by the overall configuration of many microstates; e.g. the heat of a substance (mesostate), which is made up of the aggregate of motions of many molecules (microstate).
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A description of an aspect of a geographical system at a level between complete detail (the microstate) and a simple summary statistic or percentage (the macrostate).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An intermediate metabolic product in the formation of anastates or catastates.
tags: rare
Forms:
form: mesostates
tags: plural