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meson

noun
/ˈmɛs.ɒn//ˈmiːzɒn/

Etymology

From meso- + -on. Coined by Indian physicist Homi Bhabha in 1939, as a modification of the earlier suggestion mesotron.

Definitions

  1. The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves.

  2. A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons…

    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. An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or…

    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.)

The neighborhood

Derived

antimeson, B meson, dimeson, eta meson, exotic meson, hybrid meson, hypermeson, intermeson, J/psi meson, J/ψ meson, K-meson, mesic, mesonic, mesonics, mesonium, multimeson, mu-meson, photomeson, pi meson, pi-minus meson, pi-plus meson, rho meson, upsilon meson

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at meson. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at meson. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at meson

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA