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Meanings of moduli in English

Continuous parameter of a physical theory, often set as the vacuum expectation value of a scalar field (either elementary or composite) along the minima of its potential.

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Examples for "modulus"
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However, the interpretation of shear modulus distribution is often confusing and cumbersome.
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In laboratory practice, the determination of transverse shear modulus is often overlooked.
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The low and high-pressure testing protocols yielded quantitatively indistinguishable stress-strain and modulus-strain results.
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Its bone-matching elastic modulus seems to contribute to its clinical efficacy.
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Polymer modulus was found to be enhanced upon raising total calcium phosphate content.
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Usage of moduli in English
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In addition, moduli space has a metric whose geodesics are natural to study.
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The Young's moduli exhibited a log-normal distribution for both cell lines.
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In recent years, Mirzakhani has explored other aspects of the geometry of moduli space.
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The present study employs a direct conversion from CT Hounsfield units to elastic moduli.
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Whole-volume axial stiffness and sub-regional Young's and shear moduli were computed by finite-element analysis.
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This point of view led Mirzakhani to new insights into other questions about moduli space.
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Because of its complexities and inhomogeneity, moduli space has often seemed impossible to work on directly.
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Simultaneously, the elastic moduli of MoAlB are supposed to become more isotropic after Si and W addition.
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By contrast, moduli space is totally inhomogeneous: Every part of it looks totally different from every other part.
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Similar trend was observed in the compressive moduli of the cartilage constructs generated by the three different chondrocytes.
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She has a strong geometric intuition that allows her to grapple directly with the geometry of moduli space.
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These materials exhibit relatively high Young's moduli but low toughness and a high tendency to tear or break.
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However, this says nothing about the global structure of moduli space, which is extremely complicated and still very mysterious.
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She calculates certain volumes in moduli space and then deduces the counting result for simple closed geodesics from this calculation.
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It is astounding to find that the rigidity in homogeneous spaces has an echo in the inhomogeneous world of moduli space.
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We report classes of electronic systems that achieve thicknesses, effective elastic moduli, bending stiffnesses, and areal mass densities matched to the epidermis.
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