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Megastate vs Metastate - What's the difference?

megastate | metastate |

As nouns the difference between megastate and metastate

is that megastate is a very large geopolitical state while metastate is (physics) a metastable isomer.

megastate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A very large geopolitical state.
  • * 2005 , Paul Roberts, The end of oil: on the edge of a perilous new world
  • ...the idea that a megastate like China or India might pass through a full-blown industrial revolution simply boggles the mind.
  • * 2008 , Gary R. Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida
  • At the dawn of the millennium, it is the fourth largest in the country, a megastate that was among those introducing new words into the American vernacular...

    metastate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) A metastable isomer
  • (statistical mechanics) A probability measure on the space of all thermodynamic states of a system
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