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lentiform (iou) and isospin (iou)


lentiform (iou)



lentiform adjective. E18.
[from Latin lent-, lens lentil + -I- + -FORM.]
Shaped like a lentil or a (usu. biconvex) lens; lenticular.
lentiform nucleus Anatomy the lower of the two grey nuclei of the corpus striatum.

isospin (iou)



isospin noun. M20.
[Contr. of isotopic spin, isobaric spin.]
Physics. A vector quantity associated with subatomic particles and atomic nuclei, expressing that the strong interaction does not depend on the electric charge, its quantum number (symbol T or I) being so assigned that similar particles differing only in charge-related properties can be treated as different states of a single particle.