underdope

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verb

To dope at less than the optimal level for superconductivity

OriginEnglish dope ← Middle English under- ← Old English under- →
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Meanings

verbunderdope (third-person singular simple present underdopes, present participle underdoping, simple past and past participle underdoped)

present singular third person underdopes · participle present underdoping · participle past underdoped · past underdoped

  1. natural sciencesTo dope at less than the optimal level for superconductivity

    We note that this range shrinks with underdoping.

    2009 January 15, Takeshi Kondo, Rustem Khasanov, Tsunehiro Takeuchi, J, “Competition between the pseudogap and superconductivity in the high-Tc copper oxides”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7227, →DOI

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁entér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂én
  4. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  5. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰí
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰér
  7. Proto-Germanic*under
  8. Proto-West Germanic*undar
  9. Old Englishunder-
  10. Middle Englishunder-
  11. Englishunder-
  12. Englishdope
  13. Englishunderdope

From under- + dope.

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APA

underdope. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underdope

MLA

“underdope.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underdope. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “underdope,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underdope.

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