English Explanatory Dictionary

Zeeman effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The splitting of single spectral lines into three (or more) in the presence of a magnetic field.

Word forms

Zeeman effect Zeeman effects

Etymology

After Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist.

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