Plural of boson
regular plural
The plural of boson is bosons.
Forms of boson
| Singular | boson /ˈbəʊ.zɒn/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | bosons |
| Countable | countable |
Bosons in a sentence
- In supersymmetry theory, all bosons have fermionic counterparts, known as bosinos.From the entry -ino
- Some bosons are massive while others are massless.From the entry massive
- Its extension is a theory in which the NLSM Goldstone bosons interact with a cubic biadjoint scalar.2016, Freddy Cachazo, Peter Cha, Sebastian Mizera, “Extensions of Theories from Soft Limits”, in arXiv. From the entry biadjoint
- In all these, bosons lose their individual identities, condensing into a part of a superboson or a superatom.2013, Behram N. Kursunogammalu, Stephan L. Mintz, Arnold Perlmutter, Neutrino Mass, Dark Matter, Gravitational Waves, Monopole…. From the entry superboson
- Bosons obey Bose–Einstein statistics in which there is no restriction on the occupation number of any single-particle state.2010, Masahito Ueda, Fundamentals and New Frontiers of Bose-Einstein Condensation, World Scientific, page 1. From the entry Bose-Einstein statistics
Meaning of boson
- noun A particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. They have integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, and some (gauge bosons) are known to carry the fundamental forces.
- noun A boatswain.
Questions about the plural of boson
- What is the plural of boson?
- The plural of boson is bosons.
- Is boson countable?
- Boson is a countable noun.
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