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evanescent
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ev·a·nes·cent  (v-nsnt)
adj.
Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
eva·nescent·ly adv.
evanescent [ˌɛvəˈnɛsənt]
adj
1. passing out of sight; fading away; vanishing
2. ephemeral or transitory
evanescence  n
evanescently  adv
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Adj.1.evanescent - tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty"
impermanent, temporary - not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing"
evanescent
adjective (Formal) ephemeral, passing, brief, fading, fleeting, vanishing, short-lived, fugitive, transient, momentary, transitory, impermanent, fugacious the evanescent effects of light and weather on the landscape
Translations
evanescent [ˌiːvəˈnesnt] ADJ (liter) → evanescente, fugaz, efímero
evanescent
adj (Liter) → vergänglich
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We have successfully carried out an experimental demonstration of an acoustic hyperlens that magnifies sub-wavelength objects by gradually converting evanescent waves into propagating waves," said Xiang Zhang, a principal investigator with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and director of the Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
World's first acoustic hyperlens could improve sonar devices by Asian News International
Here several fiber-optic DNA biosensors based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) [2,49,50,51], ellipsometry, evanescent wave are depicted below.
Recent advances in fiber-optic DNA biosensors by Wang, Yi-Ming; Pang, Xiao-Feng; Zhang, Yu-Yu / Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering (JBiSE)
The obtained spectra were corrected for the wavelength-dependent penetration depth of the evanescent wave as well as for the baseline by the Spectrum v.
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