energy state

1. 1.

   a definite stable energy that a physical system can have; used especially of the state of electrons in atoms or molecules

   “according to quantum theory only certain energy levels are possible”

   Synonymsenergy level

   Broaderenergy

Questions about energy state

What does energy state mean?

energy state means "a definite stable energy that a physical system can have; used especially of the state of electrons in atoms or molecules".

What is another word for energy state?

Close synonyms include energy level. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is energy state a common word?

energy state is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.