boson

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boson

Etymology 1 edit

Bose +‎ -on. Named after Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974); coined by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1945 in a lecture titled "Developments in Atomic Theory".

Pronunciation edit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.zɒn/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.zɒn/
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Noun edit

boson (plural bosons)

(physics) A particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. They have integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, and some (gauge bosons) are known to carry the fundamental forces. Compare fermion.

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Translations edit

particle

Arabic: بُوزُون m (bōzōn)
Armenian: բոզոն (bozon)
Basque: bosoi
Bengali: বোসন (bōśon)
Catalan: bosó (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 玻色子 (zh) (bōsèzi)
Dutch: boson (nl) n
Finnish: bosoni (fi)
French: boson (fr) m
Galician: bosón (gl) m
Georgian: ბოზონი (bozoni)
German: Boson (de) n
Greek: μποζόνιο (el) n (bozónio)
Gujarati: બોસાણુ m (bosāṇu)
Hindi: बोसाणु m (bosāṇu)
Hungarian: bozon (hu)
Icelandic: bóseind f
Italian: bosone (it) m
Japanese: ボース粒子 (ja) (Bōsu-ryūshi), ボソン (ja) (boson)
Khmer: បូសាណូ (bos sa no)
Korean: 보손 (boson)
Macedonian: бозо́н m (bozón)
Marathi: बोसाणू m (bosāṇū)
Nepali: बोसाणु (bosāṇu)
Persian: بوزون (bozon)
Polish: bozon (pl) m
Portuguese:
Brazilian: bóson (pt) m

European: bosão (pt) m
Russian: бозо́н (ru) m (bozón)
Sanskrit: बोसाणु m (bosāṇu)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бо̀зо̄н m

Roman: bòzōn (sh) m
Slovene: bozón m
Spanish: bosón (es) m
Swedish: boson (sv)
Tamil: முழுச்சுழலி (muḻuccuḻali)
Turkish: bozon (tr)

Etymology 2 edit

Contraction of boatswain.

Noun edit

boson (plural bosons)

(obsolete) A boatswain.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:
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