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HEAVY PARTICLE
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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 +1
Synonyms:
baryon; heavy particle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("heavy particle" 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 "heavy particle"):
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)
