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QCD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("QCD" is a kind of...):
quantum field theory (the branch of quantum physics that is concerned with the theory of fields; it was motivated by the question of how an atom radiates light as its electrons jump from excited states)
