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The '''vibrational partition function''' traditionally refers to the component of the [[canonical partition function]] resulting from the vibrational degrees of freedom of a system. The vibrational partition function is the only well-defined in model systems where the vibrational motion is relatively uncoupled with the system's other degrees of freedom.

==Approximations==