SOLID-STATE PHYSICS

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Meaning:

The branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals; superconductivity; photoconductivity

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Hypernyms ("solid-state physics" is a kind of...):

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

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