See Also: Lorentz Gas(medicine)
Lorentz(dictionary)
Lorentz Force(medicine)
lorentz ionisation(medicine)
Lorentz (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Lorentz transformations(encyclopedia)
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon(encyclopedia)
Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction(encyclopedia)
Lorentz National Park(tourism)

assert (oh) and Lorentz Gas (medicine)


assert (oh)



[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: , past participle of asserere, from ad- 'to' + serere 'to join']
to state firmly that something is true
::French Cooking, she asserted, is the best in the world.
assert that
::He asserted that nuclear power was a safe and non-polluting energy source.
assert your rights/independence/superiority etc
to state very strongly your right to something
::Native Americans asserting their rights to ancestral land
assert yourself
to behave in a determined way and say clearly what you think
::Women began to assert themselves politically.
assert itself
if an idea or belief asserts itself, it begins to influence something
::National pride began to assert itself.

Lorentz Gas (medicine)


lorentz gas
<radiobiology> Plasma model in which the electrons are assumed not to interact with each Other, but only with ions (Z to infinity) and where the ions are assumed to remain at rest/fixed (M-i to infinity).

Synonym: electron gas.