Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In relativistic quantum mechanics, the completely filled, negative-energy electron state that makes up a vacuum. If a negative-energy electron transitions to a positive-energy state, the resulting hole has the properties of a positron.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac.]
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If so then we can fill up the analogue of the Dirac sea.
Dark Matter: Still Dark. Julianne 2008
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