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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A state of a physical system in which the system has more than the minimum possible potential energy and is therefore often unstable.

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  • noun physics any state of a particle or system of particles that has a higher energy than that of its ground state

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