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Meaning of mesosonic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Describing motion through a two-phase medium, usually electrons and heavy ions, at a speed between the speeds of sound in the two components.

not-comparable

Examples

“In space plasmas, spacecraft usually encounter mesosonic flows, i.e. flows which are supersonic with respect to the ion thermal speed, but subsonic with respect to the electron thermal speed.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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