pi meson
English
Alternative forms
- π meson
- π-meson
- pi-meson
Etymology
pi (“π”) + meson
Noun
pi meson (plural pi mesons)
- (archaic, formal) A pion, a type of meson
- 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
- There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.
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Synonyms
- pion
- πon
- π-on
- π
Hyponyms
- pi-plus
- pi-minus
- pi-zero
Anagrams
- impones, peonism, somepin