microstate

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?

Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós)

Ancient Greek μῑκρο- (mīkro-)lbor.

English micro-

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s

Proto-Italic *status

Latin statuslbor.

Old French estatbor.

Middle English stat

English state

English microstate

From micro- + state.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪ.kɹəʊˌsteɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

microstate (plural microstates)

1. (politics) A sovereign state which has a very small land area and population.

   Synonym: (one sense) micronation

2. (physics) The specific detailed microscopic configuration of a system.

   Antonym: macrostate

   • 1989, H. E. Avery, D. John Shaw, Physical Chemistry, page 33:

     However, the number of microstates in which the excess of molecules in one bulb over the number in the other bulb is sufficient to permit the measurement of a pressure difference is a quite discountably small fraction of the total number of microstates.

Derived terms

• microstate continuum

Translations

sovereign state which has a very small land area and population

• Arabic: دُوَيْلَة (duwayla)
• Catalan: microestat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微型國家 / 微型国家 (zh) (wēiguān zhuàngtài)

• Czech: ministát m, státeček m
• Danish: mikrostat c
• Dutch: dwergstaat (nl), ministaat
• Finnish: kääpiövaltio (fi)
• Georgian: მიკროსახელმწიფო (miḳrosaxelmc̣ipo), მიკროქვეყანა (miḳrokveq̇ana)
• German: Zwergstaat (de) m
• Japanese: マイクロ (ja) (maikuro)
• Kazakh: микромемлекет (mıykromemleket)
• Polish: mikropaństwo n
• Romanian: microstat n
• Russian: ка́рликовое госуда́рство n (kárlikovoje gosudárstvo)
• Spanish: microestado m
• Swedish: mikrostat c
• Thai: จุลรัฐ (th) (jun-lá-rát)
• Turkish: mikrodevlet (tr)

specific detailed microscopic configuration of a system

• Catalan: microestat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微觀狀態 / 微观状态 (wēiguān zhuàngtài)

• Czech: mikrostav m
• Danish: mikrotilstand c
• Dutch: microtoestand m
• Finnish: mikro-olosuhteet pl
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: микроахуал (mıykroaxuwal)
• Polish: mikrostan m
• Russian: микросостоя́ние (ru) n (mikrosostojánije)
• Spanish: microestado m
• Swedish: mikrotillstånd n

Anagrams

• tetrasomic