Meaning of mesosonic | Babel Free
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.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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