"Higgs boson" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Higgs bosons [plural]
Etymology: From Higgs + boson; named after British physicist Peter Higgs, who is credited with proposing what is now called the Higgs mechanism. Etymology templates: {{named-after/list|physicist||||}} physicist, {{!}} |, {{lang|en|Peter Higgs}} Peter Higgs, {{named-after|en|Peter Higgs|nat=British|nocap=1|occ=physicist|wplink==}} named after British physicist Peter Higgs Head templates: {{en-noun}} Higgs boson (plural Higgs bosons)
  1. (physics) An elementary particle in the Standard Model, namely a boson with zero spin, that gives mass to other particles. Categories (topical): Subatomic particles Synonyms: God particle, Higgs particle Derived forms: Higgs bison, Higgsino Related terms: Higgs, Higgs field, Higgsino, Higgs mechanism, Higgs particle Translations (elementary particle): بُوزُون هِيغْز (bōzōn higz) (Arabic), Հիգսի բոզոն (Higsi bozon) (Armenian), bóson de Higgs [masculine] (Brazilian Portuguese), bosó de Higgs (Catalan), 希格斯玻色子 (Xīgésī bōsèzi) (Chinese Mandarin), Higgsův boson [masculine] (Czech), Higgsboson [neuter] (Dutch), Higgsdeeltje [neuter] (Dutch), bosão de Higgs [masculine] (European Portuguese), Higgsin bosoni (Finnish), boson de Higgs [masculine] (French), Higgs-Boson [neuter] (German), Higgs-Teilchen [neuter] (German), μποζόνιο Χιγκς (bozónio Chigks) [neuter] (Greek), Higgs-bozon (Hungarian), ヒッグス粒子 (Higgusu ryūshi) (Japanese), Хигсов бозо́н (Higsov bozón) [masculine] (Macedonian), bozon Higgs'a [masculine] (Polish), бозо́н Хи́ггса (bozón Xíggsa) [masculine] (Russian), хи́ггсовский бозо́н (xíggsovskij bozón) [masculine] (Russian), Хѝггсов бо̀зо̄н [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Hìggsov bòzōn [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), bosón de Higgs [masculine] (Spanish), Higgspartikel [common-gender] (Swedish), Higgsboson [common-gender] (Swedish), Higgs bozonu (Turkish)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.