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color charge

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.66 in modern English

Syllables
col-or charge
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red).

American usage; Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From a loose analogy to the set of primary colors. The charge property has nothing to do with visible color.

Usage

Inflected Forms

color charges (plural) colour charge (alternative, UK)

Phrases

color force colour force nuclear force residual strong force strong force strong interaction strong nuclear force strong nuclear interaction

Frequently Paired Words

color force colour force nuclear force residual strong force strong force strong interaction strong nuclear force strong nuclear interaction

Questions

What does color charge mean?
In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red).
Where does color charge come from?
From a loose analogy to the set of primary colors. The charge property has nothing to do with visible color.

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