partial wave
Physics
noun
Each of the eigenfunctions of the angular momentum of a quantum-mechanical system (as a subatomic particle), the sum of which is equal to the wave function of the system (i.e. the general solution of Schrödinger's equation for the system).
Origin
1950s.
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