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pauli exclusion principle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pauli exclusion principle has 1 sense
- pauli exclusion principle(n = noun.cognition) exclusion principle - no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers; Array is a kind of law, law of nature
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pauli exclusion principle, n. Physics the assertion that no two fermions can have the same quantum number.
Etymology
W. Pauli, Austrian physicist d. 1958
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