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PRONUNCIATION OF FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT

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Fundamental constant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dimensionless physical constant

In physics, a dimensionless physical constant, sometimes called fundamental physical constant, is a physical constant that is dimensionless – having no units attached, having a numerical value that is the same under all possible systems of units. A common example is the fine-structure constant α, with approximate value 7.29735257×10−3. The term "fundamental physical constant" has also been used to refer to universal but dimensional physical constants such as the speed of light c, vacuum permittivity ε0, Planck's constant h, or the gravitational constant G. However, the numerical value of these constants are not fundamental, since they are dependent on the units used to express them. Increasingly, physicists reserve the use of the term "fundamental physical constant" to refer only to dimensionless physical constants that cannot be derived from any other source and can only be measured from nature. Such values can also colloquially be referred to as fudge factors.

Definition of fundamental constant in the English dictionary

The definition of fundamental constant in the dictionary is a physical constant, such as the gravitational constant or speed of light, that plays a fundamental role in physics and chemistry and usually has an accurately known value.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT

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WORDS THAT END LIKE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT

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Synonyms and antonyms of fundamental constant in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «fundamental constant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT

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The translations of fundamental constant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fundamental constant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

基本常数
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

constante fundamental
570 millions of speakers

English

fundamental constant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मौलिक स्थिर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الثابت الأساسي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фундаментальная константа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

constante fundamental
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৌলিক ধ্রুবক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

constante fondamentale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemalar asas
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Translator English - German

Naturkonstante
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Translator English - Japanese

基礎定数
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기본 일정
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Translator English - Javanese

Dhasar tetep
85 millions of speakers
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hằng số cơ bản
80 millions of speakers

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அடிப்படை மாறிலி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मूलभूत स्थिरता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Temel sabit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

costante fondamentale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fundamentalne stałe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фундаментальна константа
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Translator English - Romanian

constantă fundamentală
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Translator English - Greek

θεμελιώδη σταθερά
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Translator English - Afrikaans

fundamentele konstante
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Translator English - Swedish

grundläggande konstant
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Translator English - Norwegian

fundamental konstant
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fundamental constant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fundamental constant

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT»

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Recent Advances in Metrology and Fundamental Constants: ...
SI unit Fundamental constant (s) involved Mass Length Time Electric current Electric potential Electrical resistance Electrical power Magnetic flux and flux density Thermodynamic temperature Amount of substance Luminous intensitv Unified ...
Terry J. Quinn, T. J. Quinn, S. Leschiutta, 2001
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Metrology and Fundamental Constants
While the options for a new definition based on a fundamental constant are already clear today, the various experiments are at quite different stage of development and none has achieved the necessary accuracy level so far. From this point of ...
Theo W. Hänsch, 2007
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Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry
The electronvolt is the product of a fundamental constant (the elementary charge, e) and the SI unit of potential difference (the volt, V). The dalton is related to the mass of the carbon-12 nuclide, and is thus a fundamental constant.
E. Richard Cohen, 2007
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The Fundamental Constants: A Mystery of Physics
This expression involves e, the electric charge, representing electrodynamics; the constant h from quantum theory; and c, the fundamental constant of the theory of relativity, the speed of light — Maxwell, Einstein, and Planck are unified.
Harald Fritzsch, 2009
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From Varying Couplings to Fundamental Physics: Proceedings ...
The reason probably lies on the intrinsic difficulty of measuring the value of this constant [28]. Actually, the gravitational constant is the fundamental constant for which we have the less accurate determination, and the several measures of G ...
Carlos Martins, Paolo Molaro, 2011
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Laws of Nature
8.2.1.4 No law of nature describes the rate of change of a fundamental constant. But since a change in time of some fundamental constant is possible, the fundamental constants must be independent of the laws of nature. 8.2.1.5 Even though ...
Peter Mittelstaedt, Paul A. Weingartner, 2005
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Catalog of National Bureau of Standards Publications, ...
SP305-5. Fundamental aspects; Theory; Abstracts; Conference; Dislocations; J. 73A No. 5, 517-552 ( 1969). SP305-1. Fundamental constant; Gravitational attraction; Gravitational constant; Rotating reference frame; Acceleration measurement; ...
United States. National Bureau of Standards, Betty L. Burris, Rebecca J. Morehouse, 1978
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The Natural Laws of the Universe: Understanding Fundamental ...
These fundamental constants seem therefore to be ``constants of Nature''. THE LIMITS OF EXPLANATION When he put forward this definition of a fundamental constant, Weinberg was expressing a change of viewpoint between the nineteenth ...
Jean-Philippe Uzan, Bénédicte Leclercq, 2010
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Why are Things the Way They Are?
What is a fundamental constant? I don't know how to define it rigorously, and so 1 shall simply declare it to be a constant that occurs in physics and is important. Maybe this is not a very satisfactory definition, but very soon you will get an idea of ...
G Venkataraman, 1997
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Einheiten und Fundamentalkonstanten in Physik und Chemie
The velocity of light, as mentioned, appears in Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic phenomena, and is the fundamental constant in Einstein's theories of relativity [75 J. 63 F, 71 L, 64 S. 62 M]. For example E = me2 (7) states that energy £ of a ...
J. BORTFELDT (Ed), B. Kramer, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT»

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Eye of Soros Turns Toward Nice White Lady Schoolteachers
La Griffe du Lion calls that the fundamental constant of sociology. In New York, which now has four separate licensing tests that candidates ... «VDARE.com, Jun 15»
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Atomic time: 60 years of the ultra-precise atomic clock
“Atoms have very precise resonances, each associated with one particular frequency which is a fundamental constant of nature,” explains ... «E&T magazine, Jun 15»
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The Guy Who Said People Never Change Their Minds Often …
He admitted that his own discovery, Planck's constant h, a fundamental constant describing the quantum of energy, “destroyed this hope at one ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
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Even steps to quantum computation
Each of these steps corresponds to an electrical conductance equal to a fundamental constant multiplied by a fraction in which both the ... «Nanowerk, May 15»
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Explanation for G's imprecision stumbles
Tiny changes in Earth's rotation rate could explain physicists' inability to precisely measure a key fundamental constant of nature, a study in the ... «Science News, Apr 15»
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IQ Equality: There's More in Baltimore Than Elsewhere
Appropriately, we call 1.1 SD the fundamental constant of sociology. The anomaly. There being no more reliable indicator of racial cognitive ... «VDARE.com, Apr 15»
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Scott Cullather, inVNT Global Managing Partner, to Present at Fast …
... becoming “culture crazy”—developing a vibrant company culture that not only establishes one fundamental constant in the face of continuous ... «Business Wire, Mar 15»
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Speed of Light Might Not Be Constant After All!
A fundamental constant in physics that governs many other laws no more being a constant is indeed great news in the world of physics. «Island Crisis News, Jan 15»
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DVDs and downloads: Boyhood, Everyday, A Most Wanted Man …
... hairdos; it's the tension between such progress and the fundamental constant of a person's character that makes Boyhood languidly riveting. «The Guardian, Jan 15»
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Speed of light not so constant after all
The speed of light in a vacuum, usually denoted c, is a fundamental constant central to much of physics, particularly Einstein's theory of relativity ... «Science News, Jan 15»

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