Higgs
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Hick + -s. From Hick + the patronymic suffix -s.
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Higgs (plural Higgses)
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
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Higgs (not comparable)
- pertaining to the Higgs mechanism/Higgs force
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Higgs (plural Higgses)
- (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)
- (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 .
See also edit
- Higgs boson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia