| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Higgs boson |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  h gz |
| NOUN: | A hypothetical, massive subatomic particle with zero electric charge whose existence would explain the masses of the elementary particles. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Fundamental particle of the Higgs field, the hypothetical quantum field responsible for giving subatomic particles their mass, after Peter Ware Higgs (born 1929), British physicist.
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