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quantum chromodynamics
noun plural but singular in construction
Definition of QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
: a theory of fundamental particles based on the assumption that quarks are distinguished by differences in color and are held together (as in hadrons) by an exchange of gluons
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1975
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