MEANING
A particle with integer spin that follows Bose–Einstein statistical behavior.
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- Higgs boson
- bosonic field
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The simulation tracked interactions involving a boson.
The lecturer contrasted bosons with fermions.
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- boson
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular boson; plural bosons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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