Meanings
nouneffective energy (plural effective energies)
plural effective energies
- natural sciencesThe energy of a heterogeneous (polychromatic) photon beam calculated as if it were monochromatic
Consequently the ‘intuitive' theory can be taken directly into the quantum theory of waves, including the nonlinear effective energy density . . .
1995, Arthur I. Miller, Early Quantum Electrodynamics
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