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GLUON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gauge boson that mediates strong interaction among quarks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("gluon" is a kind of...):
gauge boson (a particle that mediates the interaction of two elementary particles)