gluon

See also: Gluon, gluón, and glúon

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡluːɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːɒn

Noun

gluon (plural gluons)

1. (physics) A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force.
   • 1992 November, George Zebrowski, Marvin Mattelson, “The Enigma of Distance”, in Omni, volume 15, number 2, page 80:

     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.

   • 1995 September, Robert Jaffe, “Where Does the Proton Really Get Its Spin?”, in Physics Today, volume 48, number 9, →DOI, page 24:

     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.

   • 2004 September 7, Peter Weiss, “Starting from Square One”, in Science News, volume 166, number 6, →DOI, pages 90–1:

     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.

Derived terms

• antigluon
• axigluon
• digluon
• glueball
• gluino
• gluodynamics
• gluonic
• gluonics
• gluonium
• leptogluon
• multigluon
• quark-gluon plasma
• quasigluon
• sgluon
• technigluon
• trigluon

 

Translations

massless gauge boson

• Armenian: գլյուոն (glyuon)
• Basque: gluoi
• Belarusian: глюо́н m (hljuón)
• Bengali: গ্লুয়ন (gluẏon)
• Breton: gluon (br) m
• Catalan: gluó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膠子 / 胶子 (zh) (jiāozǐ)

• Czech: gluon m
• Danish: gluon c
• Esperanto: gluono
• Finnish: gluoni (fi)
• French: gluon (fr) m
• Galician: gluón (gl) m
• German: Gluon (de) n
• Hindi: श्लेषाणु (śleṣāṇu)
• Hungarian: gluon (hu)
• Italian: gluone (it) m
• Japanese: グルーオン
• Khmer: ស្នេហាណូ (snae ha no)
• Persian: گلئون
• Polish: gluon (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: glúon (pt) m

  European: gluão m

• Russian: глюо́н (ru) m (gljuón)
• Spanish: gluón (es) m, gluon (es) m
• Swedish: gluon (sv) c
• Ukrainian: глюо́н m (hljuón)

Anagrams

• Luong, long u, lungo

Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from English gluon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlyː.ɔ̃n/

Noun

gluon m (collective, plural gluonennoù, singulative gluonenn)

1. (physics) gluons

Danish

Noun

gluon

1. (particle physics) gluon

Declension

Declension of gluon

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gluon	gluonen	gluoner	gluonerne
genitive	gluons	gluonens	gluoners	gluonernes

Esperanto

Noun

gluon

1. accusative of gluo

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡly.ɔ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

gluon m (plural gluons)

1. (physics) gluon

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlu.ɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uɔn
• Syllabification: glu‧on

Noun

gluon m inan

1. (physics) gluon

Declension

Declension of gluon

	singular	plural
nominative	gluon	gluony
genitive	gluonu	gluonów
dative	gluonowi	gluonom
accusative	gluon	gluony
instrumental	gluonem	gluonami
locative	gluonie	gluonach
vocative	gluonie	gluony

Derived terms

• gluonowy

 

Further reading

• gluon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Alternative forms

• gluón (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from English gluon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlwon/ [ˈɡlwõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: gluon

Noun

gluon m (plural gluones)

1. gluon

Hypernyms

• bosón
• partícula elemental

See also

(bosons) bosón; bosón de gauge, gluon, bosón W, bosón Z, fotón, bosón de Higgs, gravitón

• gluon on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Further reading

• “gluon”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10