boson

See also: Boson, bóson, and bosón

English

Etymology 1

From Bose +‎ -on. Named after Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974); coined by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1945 in a lecture titled "Developments in Atomic Theory".

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.zɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.zɑn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

boson (plural bosons)

1. (particle physics) A particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. They have integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, and some (gauge bosons) are known to carry the fundamental forces. Compare fermion.

Derived terms

• antiboson
• bosino
• bosonic
• bosonisation
• bosonise
• bosonize
• bosonlike
• boson star
• coboson
• diboson
• gauge boson
• Goldstone boson
• Higgs boson
• multiboson
• Nambu-Goldstone boson
• paraboson
• parabosonic
• quasiboson
• scalar boson
• superboson
• triboson
• vector boson
• W-boson
• X boson
• Z-boson

Translations

particle

• Arabic: بُوزُون m (bōzōn)
• Armenian: բոզոն (bozon)
• Basque: bosoi
• Bengali: বোসন (bōśon)
• Catalan: bosó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玻色子 (zh) (bōsèzi)

• Dutch: boson (nl) n
• Finnish: bosoni (fi)
• French: boson (fr) m
• Galician: bosón (gl) m
• Georgian: ბოზონი (bozoni)
• German: Boson (de) n
• Greek: μποζόνιο (el) n (bozónio)
• Gujarati: બોસાણુ m (bosāṇu)
• Hindi: बोसाणु m (bosāṇu)
• Hungarian: bozon (hu)
• Icelandic: bóseind f
• Italian: bosone (it) m
• Japanese: ボース粒子 (ja) (Bōsu-ryūshi), ボソン (ja) (boson)
• Khmer: បូសាណូ (bos sa no)
• Korean: 보손 (boson)
• Macedonian: бозо́н m (bozón)
• Marathi: बोसाणू m (bosāṇū)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бозон (bozon)

• Nepali: बोसाणु (bosāṇu)
• Persian: بوزون (bozon)
• Polish: bozon (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: bóson (pt) m

  European: bosão (pt) m

• Russian: бозо́н (ru) m (bozón)
• Sanskrit: बोसाणु m (bosāṇu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бо̀зо̄н m

  Roman: bòzōn (sh) m

• Slovene: bozón m
• Spanish: bosón (es) m
• Swedish: boson (sv)
• Tamil: முழுச்சுழலி (muḻuccuḻali)
• Turkish: bozon (tr)

Etymology 2

Contraction of boatswain.

Noun

boson (plural bosons)

1. (obsolete) A boatswain.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:

     Anth. Where is the Maſter, Boſon ?

Anagrams

• Bonos, Bosno-, NOBOs, boons, noobs

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English boson.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.sɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bo‧son

Noun

boson n (plural bosonen, diminutive bosonnetje n)

1. (particle physics) boson

Derived terms

• Higgsboson
• ijkboson
• W-boson
• Z-boson

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo.zɔ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

boson m (plural bosons)

1. (particle physics) boson

Derived terms

• boson de Higgs

Further reading

• “boson”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Japanese

Romanization

boson

1. Rōmaji transcription of ボソン

Maranao

Noun

boson

1. post office

References

• Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967), A Maranao Dictionary‎^[1] (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press

Northern Sami

Etymology

From bossut +‎ -n.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈposon/

Noun

boson

1. fan (electrical device)

Inflection

Odd, no gradation
Nominative	boson
Genitive	bosona
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	boson	bosonat
Accusative	bosona	bosoniid
Genitive	bosona	bosoniid
Illative	bosonii	bosoniidda
Locative	bosonis	bosoniin
Comitative	bosoniin	bosoniiguin
Essive	bosonin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person bosonan bosoneamẹ bosoneamẹt 2nd person bosonat bosoneattẹ bosoneattẹt 3rd person bosonis bosoneaskkạ bosoneasẹt

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

boson n (definite singular bosonet, indefinite plural bosoner, definite plural bosona or bosonene)

1. (particle physics) boson

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

boson n (definite singular bosonet, indefinite plural boson, definite plural bosona)

1. (particle physics) boson

Swedish

Noun

boson c

1. (particle physics) boson

Declension

Declension of boson

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	boson	bosons
	definite	bosonen	bosonens
plural	indefinite	bosoner	bosoners
	definite	bosonerna	bosonernas