strong force
noun
: a fundamental physical force that acts on hadrons and is responsible for the binding together of protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus and for processes of particle creation in high-energy collisions and that is the strongest known fundamental physical force but acts only over distances comparable to those between nucleons in an atomic nucleus
called also strong interaction, strong nuclear force
compare electromagnetism sense 2a, gravity sense 3a(2), weak forceExamples of strong force in a Sentence
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The idea that the strong force unifies with the electroweak force at some point is an example of a Grand Unified Theory, and many have worked on those since the 1970s.
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Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Last year, Yang began to use analog simulations to tackle how the strong force might have behaved during some of the universe’s very earliest moments, when the quarks and gluons that later became bound up in hadrons may have existed as an unbound soup, called quark-gluon plasma.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
During her second season in Chicago, Reese has been a strong force.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
This property is called the strong force, and the process that sticks these particles together is called fusion.
—Stephen L. Levy, The Conversation, 23 June 2025
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Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Last year, Yang began to use analog simulations to tackle how the strong force might have behaved during some of the universe’s very earliest moments, when the quarks and gluons that later became bound up in hadrons may have existed as an unbound soup, called quark-gluon plasma.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
During her second season in Chicago, Reese has been a strong force.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
This property is called the strong force, and the process that sticks these particles together is called fusion.
—Stephen L. Levy, The Conversation, 23 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for strong force
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“Strong force.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strong%20force. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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