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ferment
  • n  a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
    the political ferment produced new leadership
  • n  a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
  • n  a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
  • v  be in an agitated or excited state
    The Middle East is fermenting
    Her mind ferments
  • v  work up into agitation or excitement
    Islam is fermenting Africa
  • v  cause to undergo fermentation
    We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content
  • v  go sour or spoil
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fermentation
  • n  a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
  • n  a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
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fermentation alcohol
  • n  the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline
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fermenting
  • n  a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
  • v  be in an agitated or excited state
    The Middle East is fermenting
  • v  work up into agitation or excitement
    Islam is fermenting Africa
  • v  cause to undergo fermentation
  • v  go sour or spoil
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fermi
  • n  a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
  • n  Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954)
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fermi-dirac statistics
  • n  (physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies)
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fermion
  • n  any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
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