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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The force that arises from the strong interaction of quarks.

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  • noun physics The color force, a fundamental force that is associated with the strong bonds, created by the associated bosons known as gluons, between quarks and other subatomic particles.
  • noun physics, dated The nuclear force, a residual force responsible for the interactions between nucleons, deriving from the color force

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  • noun (physics) the interaction that binds protons and neutrons together in the nuclei of atoms; mediated by gluons

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From the fact that it is stronger than the other fundamental forces and holds the nucleus together despite the mutual repulsion of protons.]

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