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virtual state

[′vər·chə·wəl ′stāt]
(nuclear physics)
An unstable state of a compound nucleus which has a lifetime many times longer than the time it takes a nucleon, with the same energy as it has in the virtual state, to cross the nucleus.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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He urged the provincial minister that the government should declare a virtual state of emergency to carry out tree plantation campaigns and to improve sanitation and waste disposal situation across the province with provision of maximum support to the concerned municipal agencies.
As a result, we find ourselves in a virtual state of siege.
Today, with Trump's foreign policy akin to the old TV game 'Jeopardy,' the two are in a virtual state of war.
where [V.sup.[alpha].sub.j] is the transition matrix element between the virtual state j and a scattering state [alpha] and [E.sub.j] = [[epsilon].sub.j] + [[lambda].sub.j] is the zeroth-order approximation for the resonance energy, where [[epsilon].sub.j] and [[lambda].sub.j] are single particle QD levels for temporarily trapped carriers.
In this instance, if a photon of frequency v interacts with a molecule in the [S.sub.0], v = 0, state, the molecule goes to a virtual state, a nonexistent state represented by a dotted line (Figure 1(b)) and comes back very quickly (in a picosecond time scale) to the [S.sub.0], v = 0, state.
He stressed almost 240 000 vulnerable civilians are living under a virtual state of siege in Taiz since September.
Hawaii has a virtual state prohibition, as its four populated counties have gotten rid of plastic bags at grocery checkouts, with the last one beginning enforcement in July 2015.
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