gauge boson

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   a particle that mediates the interaction of two elementary particles

   Broaderboson

   Narrowergluongravitonintermediate vector bosonphoton

Questions about gauge boson

What does gauge boson mean?

gauge boson means "a particle that mediates the interaction of two elementary particles".

Is gauge boson a common word?

gauge boson 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.