BOSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boson mean? 

• BOSON (noun)
  The noun BOSON has 1 sense:

1. any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons

  Familiarity information: BOSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("boson" is a kind of...):

particle; subatomic particle (a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boson"):

gauge boson (a particle that mediates the interaction of two elementary particles)

meson; mesotron (an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0)