exclusion principle

collocation in English

meaningsofexclusionandprinciple

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exclusion
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪkˈskluː.ʒən/us
/ɪkˈskluː.ʒən/
the act of not allowing someone or something to take part in an activity or to enter ...
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principle
noun
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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Also, theexclusionprincipleprevents more than two electrons from being present in the lowest energy level.
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Fermions obey theexclusionprinciple, bosons do not.
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Competition in tropical stream fishes: support for the competitiveexclusionprinciple.
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The present status of the competitiveexclusionprinciple.
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Theexclusionprincipleis one of them.
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A mechanism of competitive coexistence that violates all known formulations of the competitiveexclusionprinciplewas found.
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In particular, he formulated theexclusionprincipleand the theory of nonrelativistic spin.
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According to theexclusionprinciple, there must be no event that does not supervene on "e" while causing "e".
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This rule is the only visible effect of theexclusionprinciplein internal lines.
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In one dimension, bosons, as well as fermions, can obey theexclusionprinciple.
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They soon established the mutualexclusionprinciplethat an individual bacterium can only be infected by one strain of phage.
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Bosons, on the other hand, do not obey theexclusionprinciple, and any number can exist in the same energy level.
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This is in contrast to the bosons, which do not obey theexclusionprinciple.
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Electrons are fermions, and obey theexclusionprinciple, which means that no two electrons can share a single energy state within an atom.
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According to the competitiveexclusionprinciple, only a small number of plankton species should be able to coexist on these resources.
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Again, this process does not include any evolutionary change of individual species, but it is merely the product of the competitiveexclusionprinciple.
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