distribution function

English

Noun

distribution function (plural distribution functions)

(mathematics, physics) A function of seven variables of the form $f(x,y,z,t;v_{x},v_{y},v_{z})$ that gives the number of particles per unit volume in single-particle phase space.

Hypernyms

function

Hyponyms

Fermi-Dirac distribution function
particle distribution function
radial distribution function

References

distribution function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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