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Bose

UK/bəʊs/ US/boʊs/ uncommon

noun

1.

Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 百色 (Bósè).

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