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Plural of boson

regular plural

The plural of boson is bosons.

Forms of boson

Singularboson /ˈbəʊ.zɒn/
Pluralbosons
Countablecountable

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

  1. 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.
  2. noun A boatswain.

Full definition of boson

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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