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dilaton

noun

Etymology

From dilate + -on.

  1. derived from dīlātō
  2. derived from dīfferō
  3. borrowed from dīlātus
  4. inherited from dilaten
  5. suffixed as dilaton — “dilate + on”

Definitions

  1. A hypothetical scalar field (analogous to the photon).

  2. A particle, associated with gravity, in string theory.

The neighborhood

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