gluon

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See also: Gluon, gluón, and glúon

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From glue +‎ -on. From being a particle (suffix "-on") that "glues" (attracts) together particles that feel the force carried by the gluon. Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1962.

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gluon (plural gluons)

  1. (physics) A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force.
    • 1992 November, George Zebrowski, Marvin Mattelson, “The Enigma of Distance”, in Omni, volume 15, number 2, page 80:
      Naive realism might ask today: Tell me what space is in itself, not in terms of other things. Tell me what a gluon is at bottom, or a neutrino, or a charge.
    • 1995 September, Robert Jaffe, “Where Does the Proton Really Get Its Spin?”, in Physics Today, volume 48, number 9, →DOI, page 24:
      The so-called spin crisis has had important effects beyond simply confronting theorists with a particularly sharp challenge to their incomplete understanding of quantum chromodynamics, the underlying field theory of quarks and the gluons that mediate their strong interactions.
    • 2004 September 7, Peter Weiss, “Starting from Square One”, in Science News, volume 166, number 6, →DOI, pages 90–1:
      Lattice QCD explores the particle realm by taking a different tack. It simulates quark and gluon behaviors by applying the full QCD theory to a tiny grid like facsimile of the space-time in which particles actually interact.

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Breton

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English gluon.

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gluon m (collective, plural gluonennoù, singulative gluonenn)

  1. (physics) gluons

Danish

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Noun

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gluon

  1. (particle physics) gluon

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Esperanto

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gluon

  1. accusative of gluo

French

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gluon m (plural gluons)

  1. (physics) gluon

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlu.ɔn/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uɔn
  • Syllabification: glu‧on

Noun

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gluon m inan

  1. (physics) gluon

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Further reading

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  • gluon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English gluon.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlwon/ [ˈɡlwõn]
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: gluon

Noun

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gluon m (plural gluones)

  1. gluon

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See also

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(bosons) bosón; bosón de gauge, gluon, bosón W, bosón Z, fotón, bosón de Higgs, gravitón

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