Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun weak_interaction

1 sense of weak interaction

Sense 1
weak interaction, weak force -- ((physics) an interaction between elementary particles involving neutrinos or antineutrinos that is responsible for certain kinds of radioactive decay; mediated by intermediate vector bosons)
       => interaction, fundamental interaction -- ((physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons)