Meanings
nounspin glass (plural spin glasses)
plural spin glasses
- natural sciencesAny material in which the atomic spins are oriented at disordered but fixed directions
Origin
From an analogy between the magnetic disorder in a spin glass and the positional disorder of conventional glass.
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