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electroweak

electroweak adjective: describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.

Adjective

electroweak (not comparable)

  1. Describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.
    • In the next section we ignore these intermediate energy scales and the intermediate unification steps and concentrate on the main problem of the Grand Unification schemes of electroweak and strong unification: What is the probable Grand Unification mass, M, beyond which the three forces...1979, Abdus Salam, “The Electroweak Force, Grand Unification and Superunification”, in Physica Scripta, volume 20, page 216

Origin of electroweak

From electro- + weak. Coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and used informally as early as 1978, and by him in print and his Nobel Prize lecture in 1979.

Words formed from electroweak

Questions about electroweak

What does electroweak mean?
Electroweak means describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.
What part of speech is electroweak?
Electroweak is an adjective.

Words near electroweak in the dictionary

  1. electroviscous
  2. electrovital
  3. electrovore
  4. electrovores
  5. electrowave
  6. electroweak
  7. electroweak interaction
  8. electroweakino
  9. electroweakinos
  10. electrowelded
  11. electrowelding

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