Standard Lemma guide

electroweak

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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

Pronunciation

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.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From electro- + weak. Coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and used informally as early as 1978, and by him in print and his Nobel Prize lecture in 1979.

Across languages

Translations

5 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • French: électrofaible — combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces
  • Ido: elektrodebila — combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces
  • Italian: elettrodebole — combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces
  • Japanese: 電弱 (denjaku) — combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces
  • Swedish: elektrosvag — combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces