HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high energy physics mean? 

• HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (noun)
  The noun HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS has 1 sense:

1. the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions

  Familiarity information: HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (noun)

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Meaning:

The branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

high-energy physics; high energy physics; particle physics

Hypernyms ("high energy physics" is a kind of...):

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Domain member category:

flavor; flavour ((physics) the six kinds of quarks)

charm; strangeness ((physics) one of the six flavors of quark)

color; colour ((physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction)

M-theory ((particle physics) a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong)

string theory ((particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings)