word
boson
BOH-zon
ˈboʊzɒnListen
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Syllable breakdown
boson
Dictionary meaning
A particle with integer spin that follows Bose-Einstein statistics; force-carrying particles such as photons are bosons.
Examples
- The Higgs boson was confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012.
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