Meanings
nountechnidilaton (plural technidilatons)
plural technidilatons
- natural sciencesA dilaton described using the technicolor model.
Then the technidilaton is a naturally light composite Higgs out of the strongly coupled conformal dynamics, with its couplings even weaker than the SM Higgs.
2015, Koichi Yamawaki, “Old Wine in a New Bottle: Technidilaton as the 125 GeV Higgs -- Dedicated to the late Professor Yoichiro Nambu”, in arXiv
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*teḱ-
- Proto-Indo-European*tetḱ-
- Proto-Indo-European*téḱ-sneh₂
- Ancient Greekτεχνο- (tekhno-)
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*léǵ-e-ti
- Proto-Hellenic*légō
- Ancient Greekλέγω (légō)
- Ancient Greekτεχνολόγος (tekhnológos)
- Ancient Greekτεχνολογία (tekhnología)
- Englishtechnology
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱel-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱélōs
- Proto-Italic*kelōs
- Old Latincolōs
- Latincolor
- Old Frenchcolor
- Anglo-Normancolur
- Middle Englishcolour
- Englishcolor
- EnglishTechnicolor
- Englishtechnicolorbf.
- Englishtechni-
- Latindīlātō
- Old Frenchdilater
- Middle Englishdilaten
- Englishdilate
- Ancient Greekἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)
- Latinēlectrum
- New Latinēlectricus
- Englishelectric
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁ey-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éyti
- Proto-Hellenic*éimi
- Ancient Greekἰόν (ión)
- Englishion
- Englishelectronbf.
- Englishdilaton
- Englishtechnidilaton
From techni- + dilaton.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
technidilaton. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/technidilaton
MLA
“technidilaton.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/technidilaton. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “technidilaton,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/technidilaton.
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