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A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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(physics) a theory that tries to link the four fundamental forces
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- according to supersymmetry each force emerged separately during the big bang
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Broader terms: scientific theory
From super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and American physicist John Strathdee in 1974 as super-symmetry, in a paper in Physics Letters B as a simplification of super-gauge symmetry used by Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
supersimetria
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Chinese Mandarin:
超對稱 /超对称
(chāoduìchèn)
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Finnish:
supersymmetria
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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French:
supersymétrie
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Galician:
supersimetría
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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German:
Supersymmetrie
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Greek:
υπερσυμμετρία
(ypersymmetría)
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Gujarati:
અતિસમમિતિ
(atisammiti)
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Hindi:
अतिसममिति
(atisammiti)
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Hungarian:
szuperszimmetria
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Icelandic:
ofursamhverfa
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Irish:
forshiméadracht
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Italian:
supersimmetria
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Japanese:
超対称性
(chōtaishōsei)
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Kazakh:
суперсимметрия
(supersimmetriä)
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Korean:
초대칭
(chodaeching)
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Polish:
supersymetria
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Portuguese:
supersimetria
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Russian:
суперсимме́трия
(supersimmétrija)
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Spanish:
supersimetría
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Tamil:
மீச்சமச்சீர்மை
(mīccamaccīrmai)
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Thai:
สมมาตรยิ่งยวด
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
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Vietnamese:
siêu đối xứng
— theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces
