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colour charge

colour charge is the alternative spelling of color charge.

Meaning of color charge

Noun

color charge (countable and uncountable, plural color charges)

  1. (US, particle, nuclear physics) In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red).

Forms of colour charge

pluralcolour charges

Questions about colour charge

What is colour charge the alternative spelling of?
Colour charge is the alternative spelling of color charge.

Words near colour charge in the dictionary

  1. colour bars
  2. colour blind
  3. colour blindness
  4. colour blindnesses
  5. colour centre
  6. colour charge
  7. colour charges
  8. colour code
  9. colour coded
  10. colour codes
  11. colour coding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colour charge (page history and authors); color charge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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