Bunchlet
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A small bunch.
"She wore a gray tailor-made jacket over a white silk blouse that looked frilly and festive because of a kind of bow between the lapels, to one of which was pinned a bunchlet of violets."
- 2 A very short burst of subatomic particles in the beam of a particle accelerator.
"For the TS design assumed, the field of an incident bunchlet on the holes is not only coupled to the output but is also scattered back into the beam pipe, exciting waves in both directions."
Example
More examples"She wore a gray tailor-made jacket over a white silk blouse that looked frilly and festive because of a kind of bow between the lapels, to one of which was pinned a bunchlet of violets."
Etymology
From bunch + -let.
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