NUCLEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nucleon mean? 

• NUCLEON (noun)
  The noun NUCLEON has 1 sense:

1. a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUCLEON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

baryon; heavy particle (any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1)

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

antineutron (the antiparticle of a neutron)

antiproton (an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of a proton)

neutron (an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus)

proton (a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron)

Holonyms ("nucleon" is a part of...):

nucleus (the positively charged dense center of an atom)

 Context examples 

An unstable isotope of carbon created when a neutron collides with a nitrogen atom, causing capture of the neutron and release of the proton converting nitrogen to a carbon with fourteen nucleons (6 protons and 8 neutrons).

(Carbon C-14, NCI Thesaurus)