前ぜん平へい衡こう過か程てい

noun

preequilibrium process

Technical term in physics for a process occurring before equilibrium is reached.

• 前ぜん平へい衡こう過か程ていは、系けいが完かん全ぜんな熱ねつ平へい衡こうに達たっする前まえの段だん階かいを指さす。

  A preequilibrium process refers to the stage before the system reaches full thermal equilibrium.