ENERGY STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does energy state mean? 

• ENERGY STATE (noun)
  The noun ENERGY STATE has 1 sense:

1. a definite stable energy that a physical system can have; used especially of the state of electrons in atoms or molecules

  Familiarity information: ENERGY STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENERGY STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A definite stable energy that a physical system can have; used especially of the state of electrons in atoms or molecules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

energy level; energy state

Context example:

according to quantum theory only certain energy levels are possible

Hypernyms ("energy state" is a kind of...):

energy; free energy ((physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs)

 Context examples 

A SI derived unit of activity of a radionuclide, equal to one nuclear disintegration or other nuclear transition from a particular energy state occurring in an amount of a radionuclide during one second-long time interval.

(Becquerel, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of atomic spectroscopy capable of qualitatively or quantitatively determining certain cations (particularly Na, K, Rb, Cs, Ca, Ba, Cu) by utilizing a low temperature flame capable of exciting a valence electron to an upper energy state which emits light at a wavelength unique to each cation as the electron returns to its ground state.

(Flame Photometry, NCI Thesaurus)