boson

See also: Boson, bóson, and bosón

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

boson (plural bosons)

1. (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
• bosonic
• bosonize
• coboson
• diboson
• gauge boson
• Goldstone boson
• Higgs boson
• multiboson
• paraboson
• quasiboson
• vector boson
• W-boson
• X boson
• Z-boson

 

Translations

particle

• Armenian: բոզոն (bozon)
• Basque: bosoi
• Bengali: বোসন (bosôn)
• 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
• German: Boson (de) n
• Greek: μποζόνιο (el) n (bozónio)
• Gujarati: બોસાણુ m (bosāṇu)
• Hindi: बोसाणु m (bosāṇu)
• Hungarian: bozon (hu)
• Italian: bosone (it) m
• Japanese: ボース粒子 (ja) (bōsu-ryūshi), ボソン (ja) (boson)
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• Khmer: បូសាណូ (bos sa no)
• Korean: 보손 (boson)
• Macedonian: бозо́н m (bozón)
• Marathi: बोसाणू m (bosāṇū)
• Nepali: बोसाणु (bosāṇu)
• Polish: bozon (pl) m
• Portuguese: bóson (pt) m, 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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

boson n (plural bosonen, diminutive bosonnetje n)

1. (physics) boson

Derived terms

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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo.zɔ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

boson m (plural bosons)

1. (physics) boson

Further reading

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

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Japanese

Romanization

boson

1. Rōmaji transcription of ボソン

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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^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

boson n

1. (physics) boson

Inflection

Inflection of boson

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål n	boson	bosonet	bosoner	bosona/bosonene

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

boson n

1. (physics) boson

Inflection

Historical inflection of boson indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.

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Swedish

Noun

boson c

1. (physics) boson

Declension

Declension of boson
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	boson	bosonen	bosoner	bosonerna
Genitive	bosons	bosonens	bosoners	bosonernas