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electroweak

adj

Etymology

From electro- + weak. Coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and used informally as early as 1978, and by him in print and his Nobel Prize lecture in 1979.

  1. derived from *weyk-✻ — “to bend, wind”
  2. derived from *waikwaz✻ — “weak, yielded, pliant, bendsome”
  3. derived from veikr — “weak”
  4. inherited from weyk
  5. prefixed as electroweak — “electro + weak”

Definitions

  1. Describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.

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