photon
noun/ˈfəʊtɒn/
Etymology
From photo- + -on. Coined by American physicist Leonard Troland in 1916 as a unit of light hitting the retina, and later popularized in a more modern sense by Gilbert N. Lewis, with the term gaining acceptance in the physics community by the late 1920s.
Definitions
The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle…
The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for photon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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