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    BARYON

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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 +1play

    Synonyms:

    baryon; heavy particle

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

    fermion (any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle)

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

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

    hyperon (any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron)

    nucleon (a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus)

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