gluon
See also: Gluon, gluón, and glúon
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡluːɒn/
Audio (Berkshire) (file) - Rhymes: -uːɒn
Noun
gluon (plural gluons)
- (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 1, 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 1, 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:, page 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.
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Derived terms
- antigluon
- axigluon
- digluon
- glueball
- gluino
- gluodynamics
- gluonic
- gluonics
- gluonium
- leptogluon
- multigluon
- quark-gluon plasma
- quasigluon
- sgluon
- technigluon
- trigluon
Translations
massless gauge boson
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Anagrams
- Luong, long u, lungo
Breton
Etymology
Borrowed from English gluon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡlyː.ɔ̃n/
Noun
gluon m (collective, plural gluonennoù, singulative gluonenn)
- (physics) gluons
Danish
Noun
gluon
- (particle physics) gluon
Declension
Declension of gluon
| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | gluon | gluonen | gluoner | gluonerne |
| genitive | gluons | gluonens | gluoners | gluonernes |
Esperanto
Noun
gluon
- accusative of gluo
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡly.ɔ̃/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Noun
gluon m (plural gluons)
- (physics) gluon
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡlu.ɔn/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -uɔn
- Syllabification: glu‧on
Noun
gluon m inan
- (physics) gluon
Declension
Declension of gluon
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gluon | gluony |
| genitive | gluonu | gluonów |
| dative | gluonowi | gluonom |
| accusative | gluon | gluony |
| instrumental | gluonem | gluonami |
| locative | gluonie | gluonach |
| vocative | gluonie | gluony |
Derived terms
- gluonowy
Further reading
- gluon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- gluon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Alternative forms
- gluón (superseded)
Etymology
From English gluon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡlwon/ [ˈɡlwõn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: gluon
Noun
gluon m (plural gluones)
- gluon
Hypernyms
- bosón
- partícula elemental
See also
(bosons) bosón; bosón de gauge, gluon, bosón W, bosón Z, fotón, bosón de Higgs, gravitón
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Further reading
- “gluon”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014