QCD as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   
   Synonym(s)
   • quantum chromodynamics (what does quantum chromodynamics mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) QCD is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • quantum field theory (what does quantum field theory mean?)