cooper

CEFRB2

/ˈkupɚ/

noun

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Examples

Cooper pairs are electron pairs formed in superconductors.
In conventional superconductors, the Cooper pairs are responsible for superconductivity.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

A placename in the United States:, An unincorporated community in Monterey County, California.
A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.
A drink of half stout and half porter.

In context

[…] though, owing to his forged signatures having been too often detected, he was declared to be "a duffer at coopering a monekur."

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They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 5, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
[…] though, owing to his forged signatures having been too often detected, he was declared to be "a duffer at coopering a monekur."
1872, Augustus Mayhew, Paved with Gold, page 269
Every design that villainy could suggest was had recourse to in the hopes of nobbling Wild Dayrell; but never being left for an hour by either his trainer or jockey, he escaped the intended 'coopering', even when the lynchpins of the wheels of his van had been tampered with.
1864, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 8, page 110

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From coop + -er.