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LEPTON
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Irregular inflected form: lepta
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("lepton" is a kind of...):
elementary particle; fundamental particle ((physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter)
fermion (any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lepton"):
electron; negatron (an elementary particle with negative charge)
mu-meson; muon; negative muon (an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino)
neutrino (an elementary, electrically neutral particle with a very small mass)
tau-minus particle; tauon (a lepton of very great mass)
Sense 2
Meaning:
100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("lepton" is a kind of...):
Greek monetary unit (monetary unit in Greece)
Holonyms ("lepton" is a part of...):
drachma; Greek drachma (formerly the basic unit of money in Greece)
