FERMION

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Dictionary entry overview: What does fermion mean?

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

1. any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle

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

Dictionary entry details

• FERMION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

particle; subatomic particle (a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions)

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

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)

lepton (an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0)

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ALSO IN ENGLISH DICTIONARY:

Fermi-Dirac statistics