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pate(dictionary)
pate(2)(dictionary)
pate(1)(dictionary)
pate(medicine)
Pheasant pate(recipes)
Pilchard pate(recipes)
Smoked Trout Pate(recipes)
Port and Stilton Pate(recipes)
Pork and game pate(recipes)

weak force (sh) and pate(1) (iou)


weak force (sh)




or weak nuclear force

Fundamental interaction that underlies some forms of radioactivity and certain interactions between subatomic particles.

It acts on all elementary particles that have a spin of 12. The particles interact weakly by exchanging particles that have integer spins. These particles have masses about 100 times that of a proton, and it is this relative massiveness that makes the weak force appear weak at low energies. For example, in radioactive decay, the weak force has a strength about 1/100,000 that of the electromagnetic force. However, it is now known that the weak force has intrinsically the same strength as the electromagnetic force, and the two are believed to be only different manifestations of a single electroweak force (see electroweak theory).


pate(1) (iou)



pate noun1. ME.
[Origin unkn.]
The head, the skull; spec. the crown of the head, now esp. a bald one. Now arch. & joc. ME.
Shakespeare 2 Henry VI Let him to the Tower, And chop away that factious pate of his. W. Boyd The afternoon sun warmed the pates of the..mourners.
The head as the seat of the intellect; a person's mind or intellectual power. Formerly also, a person with a mind of a specified quality. Now arch. & joc. L16.
M. McLuhan May my pate become a glue-pot if I don't..get that book reprinted.
The skin of a calf's head. L17.
pated adjective having a pate of a specified kind (KNOTTY-pated) L16.