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acoustic branch

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: acoustic branch
 
(ə′küs·tik ′branch)

(solid-state physics) One of the parts of the dispersion relation, frequency as a function of wave number, for crystal lattice vibrations, representing vibration at low (acoustic) frequencies.


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