bozon

English

Etymology

Blend of bozo +‎ boson

Noun

bozon (plural bozons)

1. (humorous) A notional particle of stupidity.
   • 1996, John Novak, “Re: TOR is Fucking with Us All”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet):

     Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.

   • 2000, Jeffrey Yu, “[Fanfic] Flame Wars!!!”, in alt.startrek.vs.starwars (Usenet):

     One bozon is the exact amount of stupidity and lack of scientific knowledge needed to confuse joules with watts.

   • 2000, Dirt First!, “Re: Thanks for all the fish, but I'm vegetarian”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet):

     Riling people to the point of stupidity is a poor litmus test of their decency, no matter how red and blue their faces get. The result of these trolls seems only to show that the collision of large egos results in the ejection of energetic bozons.

   • 2001, "Kurt[MCoPS]", Re: [ot] Aiiieee! - The Four Horseman^[sic] return! (on newsgroup rec.games.miniatures.warhammer)

     There might be a superhigh concentration of bozons which will create a Stupid Hole and suck them all in.

Related terms

• bogon

Anagrams

• noobz

Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from English boson.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.zɔ̃n/

Noun

bozon m (collective, plural bozonennoù, singulative bozonenn)

1. (physics) bosons

Japanese

Romanization

bozon

1. Rōmaji transcription of ボゾン

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English boson.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.zɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔzɔn
• Syllabification: bo‧zon

Noun

bozon m inan (related adjective bozonowy)

1. boson (particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics)

Declension

Declension of bozon

	singular	plural
nominative	bozon	bozony
genitive	bozonu	bozonów
dative	bozonowi	bozonom
accusative	bozon	bozony
instrumental	bozonem	bozonami
locative	bozonie	bozonach
vocative	bozonie	bozony

Further reading

• bozon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• bozony in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǒzoːn/
• Hyphenation: bo‧zon

Noun

bòzōn m (Cyrillic spelling бо̀зо̄н)

1. (physics) boson

Declension

Declension of bozon

	singular	plural
nominative	bòzōn	bosóni
genitive	bosóna	bosónā
dative	bosónu	bosónima
accusative	bòzōn	bosóne
vocative	bȍzōne	bosóni
locative	bosónu	bosónima
instrumental	bosónom	bosónima

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔzóːn/

Noun

bozọ̑n m inan

1. (physics) boson

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	bozón
gen. sing.	bozóna
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bozón	bozóna	bozóni
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bozóna	bozónov	bozónov
dative (dajȃlnik)	bozónu	bozónoma	bozónom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	bozón	bozóna	bozóne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	bozónu	bozónih	bozónih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	bozónom	bozónoma	bozóni

Antonyms

• fermión

Further reading

• “bozon”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Turkish

Noun

bozon (definite accusative bozonu, plural bozonlar)

1. (physics) boson