graviton

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a hypothetical massless spin-2 boson that would be the quantum carrier of gravity in a quantum theory of the gravitational field

   In the proposed model, a graviton would carry one quantum of the gravitational field.

Formed from gravity + -on, the particle-name suffix also found in electron and proton. The term entered physics in the 1930s for the hypothetical quantum of the gravitational field.

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