Word Finder - decays

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To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.

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The pair loved to take pictures in the decaying hospital on forty-third street.

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(of organic material) To rot, to go bad.

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The cat's body decayed rapidly.

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(of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons.

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(of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.

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Loss of airspeed due to drag.

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To cause to rot or deteriorate.

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The extreme humidity decayed the wooden sculptures in the museum's collection in a matter of years.

The program also treats some decays of charmed mesons and baryons.

When uranium decays, it becomes radium, and when radium decays, it becomes radon.

If the proton had a mean life of years, how many proton decays would there be per day in the detector?

The primary utility of this procedure rests in fitting damped sines or the damped exponentials that occur in multicomponent exponential decays.

For charged decays the detector is capable of reconstructing the position of the decay vertex.

A search was made for isolated tracks coming from hadronic tau decays.

Bat urine is composed of 70% urea which decays to form dilute ammonia and other compounds.

The parent corm remains attached to the new one, and keeps its form and size till April in the third year of its existence, after which it decays.

The leaf is sometimes articulated with the stem, and when it falls off a scar remains; at other times it is continuous with it, and then decays, while still attached to the axis.

Where, on the other hand, the rock decays with smaller debris, the hills assume smoother contours, as in the slate hills running from the Kyles of Bute to Loch Lomond.

The wood of the white pine is durable for indoor use, especially when protected by paint, but when exposed to moist air it rapidly decays, and it is very liable to dry rot; it is said to be best when grown on sandy soils.

As the discrete breather decays two small traveling waves detach from it and travel away from the central node.

The decays of tau's including radiative corrections are simulated by the dedicated package TAUOLA.

The tau decays and quark hadronization are performed, respectively, with the help of the dedicated packages TAUOLA and JETSET.

Remember that the tau decays to produce two neutrinos in addition to the muon.

Thereafter, the strobe threshold decays exponentially with time in the absence of suprathreshold NAP pulses.

By its prompting the thing grows, develops and decays, while this " germinal reason," the element of quality in the thing, remains constant through all its changes.

At first these are marked only by small brown spots; but the spots spread and fuse together, the skin of the grape is destroyed, and the flesh decays, the seed only remaining apparently untouched.

And the botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue decays and so forth is equally right with the child who stands under the tree and says the apple fell because he wanted to eat it and prayed for it.