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WEAK FORCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(physics) an interaction between elementary particles involving neutrinos or antineutrinos that is responsible for certain kinds of radioactive decay; mediated by intermediate vector bosons
Synonyms:
weak force; weak interaction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("weak force" is a kind of...):
fundamental interaction; interaction ((physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
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