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means A class of subatomic particle (like the photon or Higgs boson) that can occupy the same quantum state as any number of others of its kind, which is why force-carrying particles can stack without limit.

from Coined by Paul Dirac, who named the particle family after Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose. In the 1920s Bose worked out the statistics for how identical light particles should be counted, sending his paper to Einstein after journals balked — Einstein championed it, and the resulting Bose-Einstein statistics became the mathematical backbone for this whole class of particles, with the '-on' ending borrowed from physics convention for naming particles (as in proton, electron).