Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
A particle statistics model that describes the behaviour of collections of particles (bosons) that do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: quantum mechanics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
(physics) statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle does not apply)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: law, law of nature
History
Named after physicists Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose, who developed the model and its underlying theory in 1924-25.
Across languages
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
