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hypercolor

hypercolor noun: a hypothetical attractive force that binds prequarks together by the exchange of hypergluons, analogous to the exchange of gluons by the color force, which binds quarks together.

Noun

hypercolor (uncountable)

  1. A hypothetical attractive force that binds prequarks together by the exchange of hypergluons, analogous to the exchange of gluons by the color force, which binds quarks together.
    • We explore a model based on the classically-scale invariant standard model (SM) with a strongly coupled vector-like dynamics, which is called hypercolor (HC).2016, Hiroyuki Ishida, Shinya Matsuzaki, Yuya Yamaguchi, “Invisible Axion-Like Dark Matter from Electroweak Bosonic Seesaw”, in arXiv
  2. (attributive) A line of clothing, mainly T-shirts and shorts, that change color when exposed to heat.
    • […] hypercolor T-shirts and coffee dates […]2005, Out, volume 13, number 9, page 16
    • It's all over my blue hyper-color shirt...dammit; I've had this shirt for years. It changes color and everything...2008, Wednesday Lee Friday, A Stabbing for Sadie, page 21

Origin of hypercolor

From hyper- + color. In the clothing sense, initially a trademark of Generra Sportswear Company of Seattle.

Questions about hypercolor

What does hypercolor mean?
Hypercolor means a hypothetical attractive force that binds prequarks together by the exchange of hypergluons, analogous to the exchange of gluons by the color force, which binds quarks together.
What part of speech is hypercolor?
Hypercolor is a noun.

Words near hypercolor in the dictionary

  1. hypercolesterolemia
  2. hypercollinearity
  3. hypercolonization
  4. hypercolonize
  5. hypercolonized
  6. hypercolor
  7. hypercolossal
  8. hypercolour
  9. hypercolumn
  10. hypercolumnar
  11. hypercolumns

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