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quan'tum chromodynam'ics
Physics.
a quantum field theory that describes quarks and gluons and their interactions, with the color of the quarks playing a role analogous to that of electric charge.
Abbr.: QCD Also called
chromodynamics. Cf.
color (def. 18).
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