Meaning

1 senses
  1. (particle)Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.

    Pion

    пио́нpión

More definitions
  • a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision

Translations

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Origin

From pi + -on, as alteration of pi-meson.

From pi + -on, as alteration of pi-meson.

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Forms

plural: pions
Singularpion
Pluralpions

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision:pi-meson

Word family

13 related words

See also

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