adj
Higgs
hihgz
adj
1
Relating to the Higgs mechanism or Higgs field, the theoretical framework explaining how elementary particles acquire mass.
"Physicists studied the Higgs boson to confirm the Higgs mechanism."
"The collider was built partly to search for Higgs-related particles."
How to Use Higgs
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA word used almost exclusively in physics, referring to the theory (and particle) that explains why matter has mass.
Common pairings
Higgs boson
Higgs field
Higgs mechanism
Word Forms
Higgsed past tense, Higgses plural, Higgses singular
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Etymology
Named after the physicist Peter Higgs, who in 1964 proposed the mechanism that gives elementary particles mass.