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A hypothetical elementary quantum of the gravitational field.
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- graviton exchange
- graviton hypothesis
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The theory described gravity in terms of gravitons.
Their fictional detector searched for a single graviton event.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular graviton; plural gravitons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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