Meanings
nounhypoequilibrium (plural hypoequilibria)
plural hypoequilibria
- natural sciencesA state that is in some way less than an equilibrium
They are derived via the concepts of hypoequilibrium state and nonequilibrium intensive properties, which describe the nonmutual equilibrium status between subspaces of the thermodynamic state space of a single system and/or of the state space of the two interacting systems.
2016, Guanchen Li, Michael R. von Spakovsky, “Steepest-entropy-ascent quantum thermodynamic modeling of the far-from-equilibrium interactions between nonequilibrium systems of indistinguishable particle ensembles”, in arXiv
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