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Rebut vs Rebit - What's the difference?

rebut | rebit |

As a verb rebut

is to drive back or beat back; to repulse.

As a noun rebit is

(physics) any of an arbitrary number of quantum mechanical binary states that is maximally entangled with every other one (in the real-vector-space theory).

rebut

English

Verb

(rebutt)
  • To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
  • * Spenser
    • Who him, recount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, / Perforce rebutted back.
  • (senseid)To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

    • Derived terms

    * rebuttal * rebutter

    References

    * " rebut, v. " listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)

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    rebit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) Any of an arbitrary number of quantum mechanical binary states that is maximally entangled with every other one (in the real-vector-space theory)

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