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語源

Hick +‎ -s. From Hick + the patronymic suffix -s.

発音

• IPA: /hɪɡz/
• 韻: -ɪɡz

固有名詞

Higgs (plural Higgses)

1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

同意語

形容詞

Higgs (not comparable)

1. pertaining to the Higgs mechanism/Higgs force

同意語

• Higgsian

派生語

名詞

Higgs (plural Higgses)

1. (physics) Ellipsis of Higgs boson.; named for Peter Higgs
   • 2012 July 2, Paul Rincon, “US sees stronger hints of Higgs”, in bbc.co.uk‎, retrieved July 2, 2012:

     The Higgs is the cornerstone of the Standard Model - the most successful theory to explain the workings of the Universe - and explains why all other particles have mass.

動詞

Higgs (third-person singular simple present Higgses, present participle Higgsing, simple past and past participle Higgsed)

1. (physics) to make subject to the Higgs mechanism
   • 2015 February 26, Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin, Nathan Seiberg, Brian Willett, “Generalized global symmetries”, in SpringerLink‎:

     When the matter fields condense the U(1) gauge symmetry is Higgsed to ${\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{n}}$.

参考

• Higgs boson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia