deexcitate

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ excitate.

Verb

deexcitate (third-person singular simple present deexcitates, present participle deexcitating, simple past and past participle deexcitated)

  1. (physics, physical chemistry, quantum mechanics, intransitive, of a particle or a molecule) Alternative form of deexcite.
    • 2002, William C. McHarris, Exotic Nuclear Spectroscopy‎[1]:
      […] thus, automatically, cold compound systems have been selected, which deexcitate by evaporation of one or two neutrons.
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