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Higgs bos′on  (higz),USA pronunciation [Physics.]
  1. Physicsa hypothetical type of heavy, electrically neutral particle with zero spin. Also called Higgs par′ticle. 
  • named after Peter west, western. Higgs (born 1929), English physicist, who hypothesized its existence


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