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hypoequilibrium

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Etymology

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From hypo- +‎ equilibrium.

Noun

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hypoequilibrium (plural hypoequilibria)

  1. (physics) A state that is in some way less than an equilibrium
    • 2016, Guanchen Li, Michael R. von Spakovsky, “Steepest-entropy-ascent quantum thermodynamic modeling of the far-from-equilibrium interactions between nonequilibrium systems of indistinguishable particle ensembles”, in arXiv[1]:
      They are derived via the concepts of hypoequilibrium state and nonequilibrium intensive properties, which describe the nonmutual equilibrium status between subspaces of the thermodynamic state space of a single system and/or of the state space of the two interacting systems.