Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

standard model

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.78 in modern English

Syllables: stan-dard- -mod-el
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

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A theory about the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions that mediate the dynamics of the known subatomic particles.

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Alternative letter-case form of Standard Model.

name

Alternative letter-case form of Standard Model.

Example Sentences

"I shall call this the standard model (SM). There is promise that this model is part of the truth."
"Prof Mark Lancaster, who is the UK lead for the experiment, told BBC News: "We have found the interaction of muons are not in agreement with the Standard Model [the current widely accepted theory to explain how the building blocks of the Universe behave].""

Etymology

A proprialization of the collocation standard model, coined by American physicists Abraham Pais and Sam Treiman in 1975.

Inflected Forms

the Standard Model (canonical)

Questions

What does standard model mean?: A theory about the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions that mediate the dynamics of the known subatomic particles.
Where does standard model come from?: A proprialization of the collocation standard model, coined by American physicists Abraham Pais and Sam Treiman in 1975.

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