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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A loss of the synchronization or coherence caused by a perturbation, upon which the system returns to its state before perturbation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: quantum mechanics; medical imaging; quantum mechanics; medical imaging
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English phasing English dephasing From de- + phasing.
