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

  • noun A wave propagated through a crystal lattice as a result of shifts in atomic magnetic fields associated with the spin angular momentum of electrons in the lattice.

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  • noun physics a wave, propagated through a crystal lattice as a result of changes in the spin angular momentum of electrons in the lattice

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