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ANTILEPTON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The antiparticle of a lepton
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("antilepton" is a kind of...):
elementary particle; fundamental particle ((physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antilepton"):
antimuon; positive muon (the antiparticle of a muon; decays to positron and neutrino and antineutrino)
antineutrino (the antiparticle of a neutrino)
antitauon; tau-plus particle (an antilepton of very great mass)
antielectron; positron (an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation)
