proto-photon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A theoretical but not yet detected particle proposed to explain, among other things, the mechanisms of gravity; a gauge boson.

Word forms

proto-photon proto-photons

Etymology

From proto- + photon.

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