Maxwellisation
Pronunciation: /ˌmækswɛlɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
The English word “Maxwellisation” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
- The property of exhibiting a Maxwellian distribution (or Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution), especially as regards the speed of a particle.
- A process whereby a person criticized in an official inquiry is given an opportunity to read and respond to the criticisms before the report of the inquiry is published.
Etymology
From Maxwell + -isation (suffix forming nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing something). Sense 1 is named after the Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) who first formulated what is now called the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution, a probability distribution originally used for describing particle speeds in idealized gases, in 1860. Sense 2 is named after the British…
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