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Jo′seph•son junc′tion
( jō′zəf sən, -səf-),USA pronunciation [Electronics.]
- Electronicsa high-speed switch, used in experimental computers, that operates on the basis of a radiative phenomenon (Jo′sephson effect′) exhibited by a pair of superconductors separated by a thin insulator.
- after B. Dutch. Josephson, who predicted the existence of the effect 1965–70