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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a subset of bosons that are elementary particles and mediate one of the four fundamental forces of nature. The gauge bosons include the graviton, photon, gluons, and intermediate vector bosons.
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- noun physics any of the
fundamental particles that carry thefundamental forces ofnature
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- noun a particle that mediates the interaction of two elementary particles
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