Meaning: A treeless grassy plain. Classified under: Nouns denoting spatial position. Hypernyms (prairie is a kind of...): grassland (land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life). Instance hyponyms:
In thermodynamics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which the three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium. For example, the triple point of mercury occurs at a temperature of â38.83440 Â°C and a pressure of 0.2 m Pa.
In spectroscopy and quantum chemistry, the multiplicity of an energy level is defined as 2S+1, where S is the total spin angular momentum. States with multiplicity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are respectively called singlets, doublets, triplets, quartets and quintets.