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Higgs boson

Higgs bo·son [ hìgz bṓ zon ]


noun 
Definition:
 
massive subatomic particle: a hypothetical subatomic particle with zero spin predicted in some gauge theories and thought to be the source of the mass of all other particles

[Late 20th century. After Peter Ware Higgs (b. 1929), British physicist]
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