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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The strongest of the four fundamental interactions of nature, mediated by gluons and binding quarks together within hadrons.
- noun An instance of this interaction.
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- noun physics The interactions caused by the
strong force
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- noun (physics) the interaction that binds protons and neutrons together in the nuclei of atoms; mediated by gluons
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