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weak force

DEFINITIONS OF: weak force

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n (physics) an interaction between elementary particles involving neutrinos or antineutrinos that is responsible for certain kinds of radioactive decay; mediated by intermediate vector bosons

Synonyms:
weak interaction
Type of:
fundamental interaction, interaction
(physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons
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