Usually means: Carrier of the strong force.
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  1. gluon: Merriam-Webster
  2. gluon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gluon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gluon: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. gluon: Wordnik
  7. gluon: Wiktionary
  8. gluon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gluon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gluon: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. gluon: Dictionary.com
  12. Gluon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. gluon: Rhymezone
  14. gluon: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. gluon: Encyclopedia

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  1. Gluon: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Gluon: Extragalactic Astronomy
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  1. gluon: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gluon)

noun:  (physics) A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force.

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