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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hypothetical meson consisting of a bundle of gluons and containing no valence quarks.
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- noun physics A
theoretical particle composed entirely ofgluons .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[glue (because gluons mediate the strong interaction that binds quarks together) + ball.]
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glue + ball
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