high energy physics

1. 1.

   the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions

   Synonymsparticle physicshigh-energy physics

   Broaderphysics

Questions about high energy physics

What does high energy physics mean?

high energy physics means "the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions".

What is another word for high energy physics?

Close synonyms include particle physics, high-energy physics. 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 high energy physics a common word?

high energy physics 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.