bozon

See also: Božoň

English

Etymology

Blend of bozo +‎ boson

Noun

bozon (plural bozons)

  1. (humorous) A notional particle of stupidity.
    • 1996, John Novak, “Re: TOR is Fucking with Us All”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet):
      Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.
    • 2000, Jeffrey Yu, “[Fanfic] Flame Wars!!!”, in alt.startrek.vs.starwars (Usenet):
      One bozon is the exact amount of stupidity and lack of scientific knowledge needed to confuse joules with watts.
    • 2000, Dirt First!, “Re: Thanks for all the fish, but I'm vegetarian”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet):
      Riling people to the point of stupidity is a poor litmus test of their decency, no matter how red and blue their faces get. The result of these trolls seems only to show that the collision of large egos results in the ejection of energetic bozons.
    • 2001, "Kurt[MCoPS]", Re: [ot] Aiiieee! - The Four Horseman[sic] return! (on newsgroup rec.games.miniatures.warhammer)
      There might be a superhigh concentration of bozons which will create a Stupid Hole and suck them all in.

Anagrams

Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from English boson.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈboː.zɔ̃n/

Noun

bozon m (collective, plural bozonennoù, singulative bozonenn)

  1. (particle physics) bosons

Japanese

Romanization

bozon

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ボゾン

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English boson.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.zɔn/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔzɔn
  • Syllabification: bo‧zon

Noun

bozon m inan (related adjective bozonowy)

  1. boson (particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics)

Declension

Further reading

  • bozon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • bozony in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bǒzoːn/
  • Hyphenation: bo‧zon

Noun

bòzōn m inan (Cyrillic spelling бо̀зо̄н)

  1. (particle physics) boson

Declension

Declension of bozon
singular plural
nominative bòzōn bosóni
genitive bosóna bosónā
dative bosónu bosónima
accusative bòzōn bosóne
vocative bȍzōne bosóni
locative bosónu bosónima
instrumental bosónom bosónima

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔzóːn/

Noun

bozọ̑n m inan

  1. (particle physics) boson

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. bozón
gen. sing. bozóna
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
bozón bozóna bozóni
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
bozóna bozónov bozónov
dative
(dajȃlnik)
bozónu bozónoma bozónom
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
bozón bozóna bozóne
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
bozónu bozónih bozónih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
bozónom bozónoma bozóni

Antonyms

Further reading

  • bozon”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Turkish

Noun

bozon (definite accusative bozonu, plural bozonlar)

  1. (particle physics) boson