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单词 rarefy
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rarefy
verb[IorT]
(alsorarify)
uk
/ˈreə.rɪ.faɪ/us
/ˈrer.ə.faɪ/
tobecomelesssolidordense; to make something do this:
（使）变得稀薄；（使）变得稀疏
Theprimordialcosmicsoupisfullofsoundwavescompressingand rarefyingmatterandlight.宇宙原始汤充满了声波，压缩并稀释着物质与光。
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Physics: the state of matter
(Definition ofrarefyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrarefy

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It is not a matter that should be left to the rarefied atmosphere of academics and realm of the economists, policy-makers, and legislators.
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The faecal samples of all primate species were rarefied to the abundance level of the moustached monkey, the primate species with the fewest faecal samples.
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Consequently, the negative dust and the plasma ions are compressed, while the electrons are rarefied.
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This can only occur if the cold electrons are compressed and the hot electrons rarefied, and, therefore, the potential must form a dip.
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If the heavy species is negatively charged, the potential exhibits a dip and the heavies and protons are compressed whilst the electrons are rarefied.
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The result, as in modernist styles of performance, was music so rarefied that it precluded engagement with an audience, and encouraged only awestruck contemplation.
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We will present the latest measurements of plasma temperatures and heating timescales and new rarefied flow models to explain the observations.
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The interactions between a moving body in space and its highly rarefied plasma environment are one of the basic problems in space plasma physics.
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It is only reasonable in the transition from rarefied to dense gases and plasmas.
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The correlation term introduced here constitutes a bridge from rarefied to dense media.
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Although different in language the first and last of these piano works share a seemingly effortless deployment of the most advanced and rarefied of contrapuntal techniques.
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This pressure could not be smaller, since, if the gas had been too rarefied, most of the radiation emitted towards the unshocked medium would have been lost.
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Finally, parliaments were rarefied arenas, embroiling those elected to them in procedures, spaces, techniques, networks, factions, and contingent issues that necessarily distanced representatives from their representative source.
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I am now thinking of certain rarefied atmospheres.
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Again in this rarefied atmosphere it is hard to take in and to understand just what that figure means in poverty and social deprivation.
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