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MESON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meson mean? 

MESON (noun)
  The noun MESON has 1 sense:

1. an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0play

  Familiarity information: MESON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MESON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

meson; mesotron

Hypernyms ("meson" is a kind of...):

boson (any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons)

hadron (any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meson"):

b-meson (exceedingly short-lived meson)

J particle; psi particle (a neutral meson with a large mass)

k-meson; K particle; kaon; kappa-meson (an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision)

pi-meson; pion (a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision)

Derivation:

mesic; mesonic (of or pertaining to a meson)


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