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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The effect of a net attractive force between objects in a vacuum, caused by the reduction of vacuum pressure in the space between the objects, where the wavelengths of vacuum fluctuations are more limited than in the space around the objects.
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- noun The effect of the
Casimir force .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Hendrik Casimir, (1909–2000), Dutch physicist who predicted its existence in collaboration with Dirk Polder (1919–2001), Dutch physicist.]
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