meson
English Thesaurus
1. an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 (noun.object)
| hypernym | : | boson, |
| definition | : | any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons (noun.object) |
| hypernym | : | hadron, |
| definition | : | any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | b-meson, |
| definition | : | exceedingly short-lived meson (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | pi-meson, pion, |
| definition | : | a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision (noun.object) |
| derivation | : | mesic, mesonic, |
| definition | : | of or pertaining to a meson (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | mesic, mesonic, |
| definition | : | of or pertaining to a meson (adj.pert) |
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