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Graviton

//ˈɡɹavɪtɒn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass. particle
  2. 2
    a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles wordnet

Etymology

From gravity + -on. Coined by Russian physicists Dmitrii Blokhintsev and F. M. Gal'perin in 1934, and reintroduced by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1959 in a lecture to the American Physical Society.

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