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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 a spin quantum number of one

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