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Microstate logo #10101) Country classification
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Microstate logo #21000 A microstate or ministate is a sovereign state having a very small population or very small land area, but usually both. As the meaning of neither `state` nor `very small` is clear the recent attempts to define microstates focus on identifying political entities with unique qualitative features linked to their geographic or demographic limitat...
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Microstate logo #21000[statistical mechanics] In statistical mechanics, a microstate is a specific microscopic configuration of a thermodynamic system that the system may occupy with a certain probability in the course of its thermal fluctuations. In contrast, the macrostate of a system refers to its macroscopic properties, such as its temperature and pressure. ...
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microstate logo #21003(from the article `diplomacy`) ...the establishment of a modern diplomatic corps. After the larger colonies gained independence, smaller ones, where this problem was more acute, ...
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microstate logo #20973<chemistry> Each arrangement of the ensemble, every possible arrangement of the atoms or molecules in the system. ... (09 Jan 1998) ...
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