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boson noun. M20.
[from S. N. Bose (1894-1974), Indian physicist, who with Einstein stated the statistical relations describing the behaviour of such particles: see -ON.]
Physics. A particle that has a symmetric wave function, and hence integral spin, and can be described by Bose-Einstein statistics. Cf. FERMION.