Higgs

English

Alternative forms

• Hicks

Etymology

Hick +‎ -s. From Hick + the patronymic suffix -s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪɡz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡz

Proper noun

Higgs (plural Higgses)

1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Synonyms

• Hick
• Hicks
• Hickson

 

Adjective

Higgs (not comparable)

1. pertaining to the Higgs mechanism/Higgs force

Synonyms

• Higgsian

Derived terms

• Higgs bison
• Higgs boson
• Higgs factory
• Higgs field
• Higgs force
• Higgsian
• Higgsino
• Higgsless
• Higgs mechanism
• Higgs particle

 

Noun

Higgs (plural Higgses)

1. (physics) Ellipsis of Higgs boson.; named for Peter Higgs
   • 2012 July 2, Paul Rincon, “US sees stronger hints of Higgs”, in bbc.co.uk‎^[1], retrieved July 2, 2012:

     The Higgs is the cornerstone of the Standard Model - the most successful theory to explain the workings of the Universe - and explains why all other particles have mass.

Verb

Higgs (third-person singular simple present Higgses, present participle Higgsing, simple past and past participle Higgsed)

1. (physics) to make subject to the Higgs mechanism
   • 2015 February 26, Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin, Nathan Seiberg, Brian Willett, “Generalized global symmetries”, in SpringerLink‎^[2]:

     When the matter fields condense the U(1) gauge symmetry is Higgsed to $\mathbb {Z} _{n}$.

See also

• Higgs boson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia