elementary particle
nounDefinitions
A fundamental particle
A fundamental particle; any of the subatomic particles that do not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.
- The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for elementary particle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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