macroscopic
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This switching changes the material's macroscopic electrical properties and reverses which direction has easier electrical flow, a property known as the diode effect, where current flows more easily in one direction than the other.
From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025
In the words of the committee, "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit".
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025
Entropy is essentially the number of such microstates consistent with the same macroscopic variables, he deduced.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024
That means the puddle has more entropy than the crystals, and the system evolves to the macroscopic state with the greatest entropy.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024
This says that the laws of physics conspire to prevent macroscopic bodies from carrying information into the past.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
