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NUCLEON
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I. (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)
