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intermediate vector boson

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

  • noun Any of three massive gauge bosons (the two charged W bosons and the neutral Z boson) that have one unit of spin and mediate weak interactions.

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  • noun physics Any of the three fundamental particles (the two W-bosons and the Z-boson) that transmit the weak nuclear force and have a mass about 100 times that of a proton.

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  • noun a gauge boson that mediates weak interactions between particles

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