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gluons

gluons is the plural of gluon.

Meaning of gluon

Noun

gluon (plural gluons)

  1. (particle) A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force.
    • 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.1992 November, George Zebrowski, Marvin Mattelson, “The Enigma of Distance”, in Omni, volume 15, number 2, page 80

Questions about gluons

What is gluons the plural of?
Gluons is the plural of gluon.

Words near gluons in the dictionary

  1. gluonic
  2. gluonics
  3. gluonium
  4. gluoniums
  5. gluonlike
  6. gluons
  7. gluonstrahlung
  8. gluophobic
  9. Glup Shitto
  10. Glup Shittos
  11. gluphilic

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