gyroaverage

English

Etymology

gyro- +‎ average

Noun

gyroaverage (plural gyroaverages)

1. (mathematics) The average over a gyroperiod; a gyrophase average.
   • 2016, F Rozar, C Steiner, G Latu, M Mehrenberger, V Grandgirard, Julien Bigot, T Cartier-Michaud, Jean Roman, “Optilization of the gyroaverage operator based on hermite interpolation”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     The gyroaverage operator has been reformulated and is now expressed as a matrix-vector product and a cache-friendly algorithm has been setup.

Verb

gyroaverage (third-person singular simple present gyroaverages, present participle gyroaveraging, simple past and past participle gyroaveraged)

1. (mathematics) To calculate the gyroaverage.
   • 1990, Scott Edward Parker, Particle Simulation of Bounded Plasmas with a Wide Range of Space and Time Scales:

     The difference being that Eq. (5.9) is discrete and we cannot gyroaverage over the phase.