graviton

See also: Graviton, gravitón, and gráviton

English

Etymology

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From gravity +‎ -on. Coined by Russian physicists Dmitrii Blokhintsev and F. M. Gal'perin in 1934, and reintroduced by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1959 in a lecture to the American Physical Society.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹavɪtɒn/

Noun

graviton (plural gravitons)

1. (physics) A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.

Translations

a hypothetical gauge boson

• Armenian: գրավիտոն (hy) (graviton)
• Basque: grabitoi
• Catalan: gravitó (ca) m
• Czech: graviton m
• Dutch: graviton (nl) n
• Finnish: gravitoni (fi)
• French: graviton (fr) m
• German: Graviton (de) n
• Gujarati: ગુરુત્વાણુ m (gurutvāṇu)
• Hindi: गुरुत्वाणु m (gurutvāṇu)
• Hungarian: graviton (hu)
• Irish: graibheatón m
• Italian: gravitone (it) m
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• Japanese: 重力子 (じゅうりょくし, jūryokushi)
• Khmer: ភូរិពលាណូ (phoo ri pol lea no)
• Korean: 중력자 (jungnyeokja, 重力子)
• Marathi: गुरुत्वाणू m (gurutvāṇū)
• Nepali: गुरुत्वाणु (gurutvāṇu)
• Persian: گراویتون (fa) (gerâviton)
• Polish: grawiton (pl) m
• Portuguese: gravitão m (Portugal), gráviton (pt) m (Brazil)
• Russian: гравито́н (ru) m (gravitón)
• Sanskrit: गुरुत्वाणु m (gurutvāṇu)
• Spanish: gravitón (es) m
• Turkish: graviton (tr)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

graviton n (plural gravitonen, diminutive gravitonnetje n)

1. (physics) graviton (hypothetical force-carrying particle)

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡraˈviton/

Noun

graviton

1. accusative singular of gravito

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.vi.tɔ̃/

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Noun

graviton m (plural gravitons)

1. (physics) graviton

Further reading

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