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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a class of bosons that have one unit of spin, including photons, gluons, W and Z gauge bosons, and the phi, psi, and upsilon mesons.
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- noun physics Any of a family of
gauge bosons having aspin quantum number of one
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