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supersymmetry

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English

Syllables
su-per-sym-me-try
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and American physicist John Strathdee in 1974 as super-symmetry, in a paper in Physics Letters B as a simplification of super-gauge symmetry used by Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino.

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Usage

Inflected Forms

supersymmetries (plural)

Synonyms

SUSY

Questions

What does supersymmetry mean?
A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.
Where does supersymmetry come from?
From super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and American physicist John Strathdee in 1974 as super-symmetry, in a paper in Physics Letters B as a simplification of super-gauge symmetry used by Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino.

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