gluon en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɡluː.ɒn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈɡlu.ɑn/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Late Latin glūs Old French glubor. Middle English glew English glue Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin ēlectricusbor. English electric Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Hellenic *éimi Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión)der. English ion blend English electronbf. ▲ Ancient Greek -ον (-on)influ. English -on English gluon From glue + -on. From being a particle (suffix "-on") that "glues" (attracts) together particles that feel the force carried by the gluon. Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1962.
Meanings
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(particle) A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force.
Naive realism might ask today: Tell me what space is in itself, not in terms of other things. Tell me what a gluon is at bottom, or a neutrino, or a charge.
1992 November 14, George Zebrowski, Marvin Mattelson, “The Enigma of Distance”, in Omni, volume 15, number 2, page 80:Lattice QCD explores the particle realm by taking a different tack. It simulates quark and gluon behaviors by applying the full QCD theory to a tiny grid like facsimile of the space-time in which particles actually interact.
2004 September 7, Peter Weiss, “Starting from Square One”, in Science News, volume 166, number 6, →DOI, pages 90–1:The so-called spin crisis has had important effects beyond simply confronting theorists with a particularly sharp challenge to their incomplete understanding of quantum chromodynamics, the underlying field theory of quarks and the gluons that mediate their strong interactions.
1995 September 14, Robert Jaffe, “Where Does the Proton Really Get Its Spin?”, in Physics Today, volume 48, number 9, →DOI, page 24:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gluons | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
sgluon · gluonic · glueball · trigluon · digluon · gluonstrahlung · technigluon · hypergluon · multigluon · gluonium · antigluon · gluodynamics · quark-gluon plasma · gluonics · axigluon · gluino · leptogluon · quasigluon
Translations (28)
eo gluono (massless gauge boson) · pt gluão (massless gauge boson) · bn গ্লুয়ন (massless gauge boson) · da gluon (massless gauge boson) · be глюо́н (massless gauge boson) · cmn 膠子 /胶子 (massless gauge boson) · ca gluó (massless gauge boson) · hu gluon (massless gauge boson) · sv gluon (massless gauge boson) · es gluón (massless gauge boson) · hi श्लेषाणु (massless gauge boson) · it gluone (massless gauge boson) · km ស្នេហាណូ (massless gauge boson) · fi gluoni (massless gauge boson) · cs gluon (massless gauge boson) · pl gluon (massless gauge boson) · pt glúon (massless gauge boson) · es gluon (massless gauge boson) · eu gluoi (massless gauge boson) · hy գլյուոն (massless gauge boson) · uk глюо́н (massless gauge boson) · fr gluon (massless gauge boson) · ja グルーオン (massless gauge boson) · ru глюо́н (massless gauge boson) · br gluon (massless gauge boson) · gl gluón (massless gauge boson) · fa گلئون (massless gauge boson) · de Gluon (massless gauge boson)