quantum chromodynamics

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quantum chromodynamics - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  quantum chromodynamics
      n 1: 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 [syn: quantum chromodynamics
           , QCD]