EGAVE

meson

About 0.55 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves.
  2. noun A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.)
  3. noun An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.)

Similar words

mesotron pseudoscalar mi-parti semilens hemibody semihemisphere paramere hemiellipsoid mesocephalic hemicortex

Often followed by

is and production theory exchange field decay in mass

Word family

mesonic mesons

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