Definitions for Higgs boson
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Higgs boson(Noun)
A hypothetical elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model; a boson with zero spin, it is thought to give mass to other particles.
Origin: From Higgs + boson; after the British physicist Peter Higgs, who is credited with proposing what is now called the Higgs mechanism.
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