unpaired
Speech parts
1. unpaired - Adjective
2. unpaired - Verb
3. unpaired - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Not paired; not suited or matched.
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unpaired socks
an odd glove
About 15 percent of the world's languages, however, have unpaired voiced fricatives, i.e. a voiced fricative without a voiceless counterpart.
An electron configuration with two unpaired electrons, as is found in dioxygen (see the filled * orbitals in the diagram) orbitals that are of equal energy—i.
Although there are usually energetic reasons why a molecular structure results such that it does not exhibit partly filled orbitals (i.e. unpaired spins), some non-closed shell moieties do occur in nature.
As there are seven 4f orbitals, the number of unpaired electrons can be as high as 7, which gives rise to the large magnetic moments observed for lanthanide compounds.