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superquintessential en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌsuː.pəˌkwɪn.təˈsɛn.ʃəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˌsʉː.pəˌkwɪn.təˈsen.ʃəl/ (Australia)
  • /ˌsʉː.pɐˌkwən.təˈsen.ʃəl/ (New-Zealand)
  • /ˌsuː.pɜʳˌkwin.teˈsen.ʃal/ (India)
  • so͞o′pər-kwĭn′tə-sĕn′shəl
  • /ˌsu.pəɹˌkwɪn.təˈsɛn.ʃəl/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /ˌsʉ.pəɹˌkwɪn.təˈsɛn.ʃəl/ (Scotland)

Etymology

From super- + quintessential.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Of or relating to superquintessence.
    • The superquintessential septuplets. 2021 July 27, “Daily Miku #154”, in reddit.com, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2021:
    • The dark energy equation of state w parameter as a function of t , for the potential in Eq. (3.60) for A = 1, λ = 1, and σ = 1: it turns out that such a scalar field can be interpreted as a superquintessential field. 2012 July 21, Giampiero Esposito, Claudio Ruban, “On Quintessential Cosmological Models and Exponential Potentials”, in researchgate.net:
    • PHILOSOPHERS may argue about the perfectibility of the superquintessential. 1991, John Victor Luce, Orationes Dublinienses Selectae: 1971-1990, Board of Trinity College, Trinity College Dublin Press, page 84:
    • For instance, if we adopt models of dark energy as potential energy of some, as yet undiscovered, scalar field, we cannot obtain superquintessential values w < −1, unless we consider phantom fields or non–minimal coupling terms. 2011 November 16, Ester Piedipalumbo, Paolo Scudellaro, “A Matter–Dominated Cosmological Model with Variable G and Λ and Its Confrontation with Observational Data”, in arxiv.org:
    • Nobody understood him, he understood nobody, and though he got on excellently with the genial Buelow, his case became hopeless when Buelow made war for Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg, a superquintessential bureaucrat, who could no more live without red tape than a geranium without red blossoms. 1910, The Atlanta Constitution 1910-08-07: Volume 43 Issue 53, page 2:

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