weak force

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weak force

The force that arises from the weak interaction of quarks and leptons.

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weak′ force′

a force between elementary particles that causes certain processes that take place with low probability, as radioactive beta-decay and collisions between neutrinos and other particles.

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weak force - (physics) an interaction between elementary particles involving neutrinos or antineutrinos that is responsible for certain kinds of radioactive decay; mediated by intermediate vector bosons

weak interaction

natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics"

fundamental interaction, interaction - (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons

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