boson
noun/ˈboʊzɒn/
Frequency rank: #16,246 most common English word
Meaning
A subatomic particle that follows Bose-Einstein statistics and has integer spin, such as photons or the Higgs particle.
Example sentence
The Higgs boson was confirmed to exist by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012.
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