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plural Higgses
A surname originating as a patronymic. examples
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pertaining to the Higgs mechanism/Higgs force examples
(physics) Ellipsis of Higgs boson.; named for Peter Higgs quotations examples
The Higgs is the cornerstone of the Standard Model - the most successful theory to explain the workings of the Universe - and explains why all other particles have mass.
2012 July 2, Paul Rincon, “US sees stronger hints of Higgs”, in bbc.co.uk, retrieved July 2, 2012
third-person singular simple present Higgses, present participle Higgsing, simple past and past participle Higgsed
(physics) to make subject to the Higgs mechanism quotations examples
When the matter fields condense the U(1) gauge symmetry is Higgsed to Z n {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{n}} .
2015 February 26, Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin, Nathan Seiberg, Brian Willett, “Generalized global symmetries”, in SpringerLink