Higgs
English
Alternative forms
- Hicks
Etymology
Hick + -s. From Hick (“a name”) + the patronymic suffix -s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɪɡz/
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- Rhymes: -ɪɡz
Proper noun
Higgs (plural Higgses)
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
Synonyms
- Hick
- Hicks
- Hickson
Adjective
Higgs (not comparable)
- pertaining to the Higgs mechanism/Higgs force
Synonyms
- Higgsian
Derived terms
- Higgs bison
- Higgs boson
- Higgs field
- Higgs force
- Higgsian
- Higgsino
- Higgsless
- Higgs mechanism
- Higgs particle
Noun
Higgs (plural Higgses)
- (physics) Ellipsis of Higgs boson.; named for Peter Higgs
- 2012 July 2, Rincon, Paul, “US sees stronger hints of Higgs”, in bbc.co.uk, retrieved July 2, 2012:
- The Higgs is the cornerstone of the Standard Model - the most successful theory to explain the workings of the Universe - and explains why all other particles have mass.
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Verb
Higgs (third-person singular simple present Higgses, present participle Higgsing, simple past and past participle Higgsed)
- (physics) to make subject to the Higgs mechanism
- 2015 February 26, Davide Gaiotto; Anton Kapustin; Nathan Seiberg; Brian Willett, “Generalized global symmetries”, in SpringerLink:
- When the matter fields condense the U(1) gauge symmetry is Higgsed to .
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See also
- Higgs boson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia