graviton

From gravity +‎ -on. Coined by Russian physicists Dmitrii Blokhintsev and F. M. Gal'perin in 1934, and reintroduced by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1959 in a lecture to the American Physical Society.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹavɪtɒn/

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graviton (plural gravitons)

1. (physics) A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.

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graviton n (plural gravitonen, diminutive gravitonnetje n)

1. (physics) graviton (hypothetical force-carrying particle)

• IPA^(key): /ɡraˈviton/

graviton

1. accusative singular of gravito

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.vi.tɔ̃/

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graviton m (plural gravitons)

1. (physics) graviton

• “graviton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English graviton.

graviton m (plural gravitoni)

1. graviton