electroweak

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.

Word forms

electroweak

Etymology

From electro- + weak. Coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and used informally as early as 1978, and by him in print and his Nobel Prize lecture in 1979.

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