Microstate

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A country that has a very small population and land area.
  2. 2
    The specific detailed microscopic configuration of a system.

    "However, the number of microstates in which the excess of molecules in one bulb over the number in the other bulb is sufficient to permit the measurement of a pressure difference is a quite discountably small fraction of the total number of microstates."

Synonyms

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micronation

Example

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"The top 10 places with the highest life expectancies are Japan, Singapore, Andorra, which is a microstate near Spain and France, Iceland and Cyprus, followed by Israel, France, Italy, South Korea and Canada."

Etymology

From micro- + state.

Related phrases

microstate continuum

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