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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does high-energy physics mean?
• HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS (noun)
The noun HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS has 1 sense:
1. the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions
Familiarity information: HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
high-energy physics; high energy physics; particle physics
Hypernyms ("high-energy physics" is a kind of...):
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Domain member category:
flavor; flavour ((physics) the six kinds of quarks)
charm; strangeness ((physics) one of the six flavors of quark)
color; colour ((physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction)
M-theory ((particle physics) a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong)
string theory ((particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings)
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