boson
pronunciation
How to pronounce boson in British English:
UK ['bəʊzʌn]
How to pronounce boson in American English:
US ['boʊzʌn]
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- Noun:
- any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons
Word Origin
- boson (n.)
- class of subatomic particles, named for Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) + subatomic particle suffix -on.
Example
- 1. What would finding the higgs boson mean for physics ?
- 2. What is the higgs boson ?
- 3. The elusive boson has probably been found .
- 4. Scientists believe the higgs boson could explain how matter gets its mass .
- 5. The particle we now call the higgs boson has never been observed .