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eigenvolume

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Etymology

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From eigen- +‎ volume.

Noun

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eigenvolume (plural eigenvolumes)

  1. (physiology) A volume determined by molecular refraction measurements, based on the assumption that the molecular packing coefficient is constant.
    • 1988, Excerpta medica. Section 14. Radiology - Volume 60, page 81:
      Radiopaque markers implanted in the left ventricle allow one to follow the motion of specific elements of myocardium and compute a measure of relative left ventricular volume, called eigenvolume.
    • 2012, Erich W. Schmid, Gerhard Spitz, Wolfgang Lösch, Theoretical Physics on the Personal Computer, →ISBN, page 102:
      Real gas particles have a finite size. When packed as densely as possible they occupy the so-called eigenvolume. The steep rise in pressure shown by the ideal gas equation as V -> 0 must occur in reality when the gas is compressed to its eigenvolume.
    • 2015, Volodymyr Vovchenko, Horst Stöcker, “Heavy-ion hot hadron matter freezes out at T=170-320 MeV?”, in arXiv[1]:
      However, when we apply the eigenvolume corrections with the mass-proportional eigenvolume , fixed to the realistic proton hard-core radius fm, we observe a second minimum in the temperature dependence of the , located at the significantly higher temperatures.