gluonic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or mediated by gluons.
Example Sentences
- "The two steps in the gluing of matter—quarks into nucleons, and nucleons into nuclei—remain mysterious, and both will be investigated at cebaf. A series of experiments on hadronic excitations will probe the consistent quark model; others will look for gluonic states or for strange quarks inside the proton or neutron."
- "GlueX is an experiment located at the Jefferson Lab, whose purpose is to study nuclear confinement by mapping the spectrum of exotic mesons generated by the excitation of the gluonic field binding the quarks."
- "A hybrid meson is one with that strong gluonic field being excited. We hope to show that this ‘excited’ gluonic field is an important constituent of matter."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Late Latin glūs Old French glubor. Middle English glew English glue Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin ēlectricusbor. English electric Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Hellenic *éimi Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión)der. English ion blend English electronbf. ▲ Ancient Greek -ον (-on)influ. English -on English gluon ▲ Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English gluonic From gluon + -ic.
Inflected Forms
more gluonic (comparative)
most gluonic (superlative)