QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quantum chromodynamics mean? 

• QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (noun)
  The noun QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS has 1 sense:

1. a theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together

  Familiarity information: QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together

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Synonyms:

QCD; quantum chromodynamics

Hypernyms ("quantum chromodynamics" is a kind of...):

quantum field theory (the branch of quantum physics that is concerned with the theory of fields; it was motivated by the question of how an atom radiates light as its electrons jump from excited states)