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Noun: quantum chromodynamics
  1. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together
    - QCD

Type of: quantum field theory

Encyclopedia: Quantum chromodynamics