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clas⋅son

  [klas-on]
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–noun Physics.
the photon or graviton as the smallest discrete quantity of the electromagnetic and gravitational fields, respectively.
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clas·son   (klās'ŏn)   
n.  Either of two massless bosons, the photon and the graviton, that are quanta of the two classical fields, electromagnetic and gravitational. See Table at subatomic particle.

[class(ical) + (bos)on.]
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