SUSY

plural SUSYs

1. countableuncountablequantum mechanicsSyllabic abbreviation of supersymmetry.

   2004: SUSY is a symmetry between particles of half-integer spin (fermions such as quarks and leptons) and those of whole-integer spin (bosons such as photons, gluons and other force carriers). — Scientific American, Sept 2004, p.58

alternative Susie · alternative Suzi · alternative Suzie · alternative Suzy

1. A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.

   And trust me, Susy, added the corporal, turning to Susannah, whose eyes were swimming with water, before that time comes round again, a bright eye will be dim.

   1765, Laurence Sterne, chapter VIII, in Tristram Shandy