Degeneracy

Degeneracy has the following meanings:

• During the period of National Socialism works of artists were dismissed as' Degenerate Art and Degenerate music that did not fit the ideology of those in power. Degenerate Art was also the title of an exhibition of a selection of the defamed works of art were shown.

• In medicine for degeneration; in the latter, as well as malignant transformation expression for the formation of structures with characteristics of " malignancy ". obsolete for "degeneration of man or of human civilization " see degeneration ( History of Medicine )

• In physics, the term: Degeneration ( quantum mechanics) - degenerate energy levels are different states with the same energy in quantum mechanical systems, such as molecular vibrations in crystals
• Degenerate matter which is formed at high density, such as neutron stars or white dwarfs.
• Degenerate semiconductor, a semiconductor, which loses its semiconductor characteristics caused by pollution or heavy doping

• A simple limiting case of a really different kind of mathematical object. For example, a point a degenerate circle (with radius 0).
• An eigenvalue is called - fold degenerate if the corresponding eigenspace has dimension.

See also:

• Albrecht II ( Meissen ), the degenerate, (* 1240, † 1314 or 1315), from the House of Wettin, Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Meissen

• Disambiguation