gluon

From glue +‎ -on. From being a particle (suffix "-on") that "glues" (attracts) together particles that feel the force carried by the gluon. Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1962.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡluː.ɒn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlu.ɑn/
• Rhymes: -uːɒn

gluon (plural gluons)

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

     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.

   • 1995 September, Robert Jaffe, “Where Does the Proton Really Get Its Spin?”, in Physics Today, volume 48, number 9, →DOI, page 24:

     The so-called spin crisis has had important effects beyond simply confronting theorists with a particularly sharp challenge to their incomplete understanding of quantum chromodynamics, the underlying field theory of quarks and the gluons that mediate their strong interactions.

   • 2004 September 7, Peter Weiss, “Starting from Square One”, in Science News, volume 166, number 6, →DOI, pages 90–1:

     Lattice QCD explores the particle realm by taking a different tack. It simulates quark and gluon behaviors by applying the full QCD theory to a tiny grid like facsimile of the space-time in which particles actually interact.

• Luong, long u, lungo

Borrowed from English gluon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlyː.ɔ̃n/

gluon m (collective, plural gluonennoù, singulative gluonenn)

1. (physics) gluons

gluon

1. (particle physics) gluon

gluon

1. accusative of gluo

• IPA^(key): /ɡly.ɔ̃/

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gluon m (plural gluons)

1. (physics) gluon

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlu.ɔn/

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• Rhymes: -uɔn
• Syllabification: glu‧on

gluon m inan

1. (physics) gluon

• gluon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• gluón (superseded)

Borrowed from English gluon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlwon/ [ˈɡlwõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: gluon

gluon m (plural gluones)

1. gluon

• bosón
• partícula elemental

• (bosons) bosón; bosón de gauge, gluon, bosón W, bosón Z, fotón, bosón de Higgs, gravitón
• gluon on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

• “gluon”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024