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MESON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0
Synonyms:
meson; mesotron
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
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)
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