fundamental interaction

1. 1.

   (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons

   Synonymsinteraction

   Broaderphysical phenomenon

   Narrowerelectromagnetic interactiongravitational interactionstrong interactionweak interaction

   physics

Questions about fundamental interaction

What does fundamental interaction mean?

fundamental interaction means "(physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons".

What is another word for fundamental interaction?

Close synonyms include interaction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fundamental interaction a common word?

fundamental interaction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.