Megastate vs Metastate - What's the difference?
megastate | metastate |
A very large geopolitical state.
* 2005 , Paul Roberts, The end of oil: on the edge of a perilous new world
* 2008 , Gary R. Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida
(physics) A metastable isomer
(statistical mechanics) A probability measure on the space of all thermodynamic states of a system
----
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)- ...the idea that a megastate like China or India might pass through a full-blown industrial revolution simply boggles the mind.
- 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...