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degenerate

1. Physics
a. (of the constituents of a system) having the same energy but different wave functions
b. (of a semiconductor) containing a similar number of electrons in the conduction band to the number of electrons in the conduction band of metals
c. (of a resonant device) having two or more modes of equal frequency
2. Biology (of a plant or animal) having undergone degeneration
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Veron examines elliptic second-order degenerate quasilinear equations, of which the model is the p-Laplacian, with or without dominant lower order reaction term.
WHEN I WENT TO SEE "Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937" at the Neue Galerie in New York, I found a line snaking from the museum's Eighty-Sixth Street entrance and around the corner onto Fifth Avenue.
Washington, Ramadan 25, 1435, Jul 22, 2014, SPA -- A tropical depression was moving west in the Atlantic Tuesday but is expected to degenerate over the next few days.
The works were being stored in Munich by the son of an art dealer tasked with selling them after Hitler declared them "degenerate".
- "Hard randomization": complete diversity is introduced by using degenerate codons encoding all twenty natural amino acids
Washington, Dec 5 (ANI): Scientists from South Africa have shown that naked mole rate sperms have become simple and degenerate, probably due to "orthogenic" (straight line) evolution.
They cover quantum degenerate gases, atom manipulation, precision measurements, optical frequency standards, quantum optics and quantum information, frequency comb, optical lattice and degenerate Fermi gases, cold molecules, hot topics, and novel applications.
In people who have the incurable disease, abbreviated as DMD, muscles rapidly degenerate, and patients typically die in their late teens or early adulthood.
This 325-page sci-fi adventure novel is the story of a small band of men and women on Genser's World, an earth-like planet of Alpha Centauri who encounter the degenerate descendants of another space-traveling species along with intelligent 'catbird' symbiots, two ancient cyborg intelligences, and a malevolent AI computer that will have to be destroyed before it can evolve into a form that will destroy everything our group of colonists have worked so hard to create.
It is no more than a peep show for the prurient, with Trisha acting uncomprehending, her jaw agape, at the antics of the degenerate posers on the show.
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