graviton

See also: Graviton, gravitón, and gráviton

English

Etymology

From gravity +‎ -on. Coined by Russian physicists Dmitrii Blokhintsev and F. M. Gal'perin in 1934, and reintroduced by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1959 in a lecture to the American Physical Society.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹavɪtɒn/

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Noun

graviton (plural gravitons)

1. (physics) A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.

Translations

a hypothetical gauge boson

• Armenian: գրավիտոն (hy) (graviton)
• Basque: grabitoi
• Bulgarian: гравито́н m (gravitón)
• Catalan: gravitó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 引力子 (zh) (yǐnlìzǐ), 重力子 (zhònglìzǐ)

• Czech: graviton m
• Dutch: graviton (nl) n
• Esperanto: gravitono
• Finnish: gravitoni (fi)
• French: graviton (fr) m
• German: Graviton (de) n
• Gujarati: ગુરુત્વાણુ m (gurutvāṇu)
• Hindi: गुरुत्वाणु m (gurutvāṇu)
• Hungarian: graviton (hu)
• Irish: graibheatón m
• Italian: gravitone (it) m
• Japanese: 重力子 (ja) (じゅうりょくし, jūryokushi)
• Khmer: ភូរិពលាណូ (phoo ri pol lea no)
• Korean: 중력자(重力子) (jungnyeokja)
• Marathi: गुरुत्वाणू m (gurutvāṇū)
• Nepali: गुरुत्वाणु (gurutvāṇu)
• Persian: گراویتون (fa) (gerâviton)
• Polish: grawiton (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: gráviton (pt) m

  European: gravitão m

• Romanian: graviton (ro) m
• Russian: гравито́н (ru) m (gravitón)
• Sanskrit: गुरुत्वाणु m (gurutvāṇu)
• Spanish: gravitón (es) m
• Turkish: graviton (tr)

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

graviton n (plural gravitonen, diminutive gravitonnetje n)

1. (physics) graviton (hypothetical force-carrying particle)

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡraˈviton/

Noun

graviton

1. accusative singular of gravito

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.vi.tɔ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

graviton m (plural gravitons)

1. (physics) graviton

Further reading

• “graviton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English graviton.

Noun

graviton m (plural gravitoni)

1. graviton

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	graviton	gravitonul		gravitoni	gravitonii
genitive-dative	graviton	gravitonului		gravitoni	gravitonilor
vocative	gravitonule			gravitonilor