fundamental particle

noun

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Millions of leadership books assert that bosses are a fundamental particle in the physics of capitalist enterprise. Dave Winsborough, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024 Solving the hard problem is then a matter of working out the extra ingredient, with one increasingly popular option being to posit very rudimentary forms of consciousness at the level of fundamental particles or fields. Philip Goff, Scientific American, 3 July 2024 Take a nice, stable, regular fundamental particle, like an electron or an up or down quark—those particles represent the first generation. Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 11 June 2024 Physicists soon realized that the messy and varied hadrons were in fact composed of just a handful of fundamental particles: quarks and gluons. Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for fundamental particle 

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1901, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of fundamental particle was in 1901

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“Fundamental particle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fundamental%20particle. Accessed 4 Dec. 2024.

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