ˈbōˈsīnzˌ]tīn-, -īnˌs] sometimes -īnˌsh] noun plural but singular or plural in construction
also bose statistics ˈbos-\
Usage: usually capitalized B&E
Etymology: after Satyendra Nath Bose b 1894 Indian physicist and Albert Einstein died 1955 American physicist born in Germany
: quantum-mechanical statistics according to which subatomic particles of a given class (as photons and pi-mesons) have a quantum-mechanical symmetry that in cases of thermal equilibrium tends to cause an accumulation of many particles of the same kind in each of the possible low-energy quantum-mechanical states — called also Einstein-Bose statistics ; compare fermi-dirac statistics