PION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision

Synonyms:

pi-meson; pion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("pion" is a kind of...):

meson; mesotron (an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0)

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