working horse

Definitions

1. 1

   Synonym of workhorse (“someone or something that does a lot of work”).

   • Since the introduction of ultrasound in cardiology in the mid fifties, echocar­diography has continued to grow and has finally become, in particular after the introduction of Doppler modalities, the working horse of the cardiologist.
   • Density functional theory (DFT)¹ is the main working horse for material simulations, especially for ground-state properties such as atomic structures and binding energies.

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