Mesostate

Quick meaning: Mesostate is a noun meaning (biology, rare) An intermediate metabolic product in the formation of anastates or catastates.

Meaning

(biology, rare) An intermediate metabolic product in the formation of anastates or catastates.

More Meanings

1. (geography) A description of an aspect of a geographical system at a level between complete detail (the microstate) and a simple summary statistic or percentage (the macrostate).
2. (physics) An intermediate physical state of matter between solid and liquid, in which the molecules have more freedom of movement than when locked in a crystal lattice, but less freedom of movement than when in the liquid state.
3. (thermodynamics) A composite state of a physical system that is determined by the overall configuration of many microstates; e.g. the heat of a substance (mesostate), which is made up of the aggregate of motions of many molecules (microstate).

Example Sentences

Even though we said the mesostates x are relatively stable, after a very long time they will also eventually thermalize (unless we additionally protect them).

If the manipulation is slow enough, and the driving connects different mesostates, then jumps between states in the same mesostate satisfy the detailed balance condition.

In operational urban simulation models, virtually no attempt is made to simulate at the level of microstates, i.e., individual behavior. Most of the models operate at the mesostate and/or macrostate level.

Many substances can be in a state between crystallized and liquid. This means that the molecules have more freedom of motion than in the solid state but not as much as in a liquid, a condition called mesostate.

Word Forms

• mesostates

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anastate, morphostat, catalysate, aminostasis, somatostain, stomatin.

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