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Etymology edit

Hick +‎ -s. From Hick + the patronymic suffix -s.

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  • IPA(key): /hɪɡz/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪɡz

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Higgs (plural Higgses)

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

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Higgs (not comparable)

  1. pertaining to the Higgs mechanism/Higgs force

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Higgs (plural Higgses)

  1. (physics) Ellipsis of Higgs boson.; named for Peter Higgs
    • 2012 July 2, Paul Rincon, “US sees stronger hints of Higgs”, in bbc.co.uk[1], 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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Higgs (third-person singular simple present Higgses, present participle Higgsing, simple past and past participle Higgsed)

  1. (physics) to make subject to the Higgs mechanism
    • 2015 February 26, Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin, Nathan Seiberg, Brian Willett, “Generalized global symmetries”, in SpringerLink[2]:
      When the matter fields condense the U(1) gauge symmetry is Higgsed to  .

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