English Explanatory Dictionary

eightfold way

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. a theory that organizes subatomic particles into octets

Word forms

eightfold way the eightfold way

Etymology

Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1961, as an allusion to the noble eightfold path in Buddhism.

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