meson

Noun

Meaning

The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mesotron triton hadron freemason Ion electron median molecule counter proton quark pion monad lepton photon
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Hypernyms

hadron boson

Hyponyms

pion kaon k-meson pi-meson K particle b-meson

Phrases with the word

k0 bar meson k0 meson k0l bar meson k0s bar meson k0s meson strange meson

Anagrams

somne mones semon somen

Examples

As more types of mesons were discovered in accelerator experiments later, it was eventually found that the mu meson significantly differed not only from the pi meson (of about the same mass), but also from all other types of mesons. Source: Internet

December 18, 2013 Neutral pion decays The meson has a mass of main and a mean lifetime of main. Source: Internet

Because of its mass, the mu meson was initially thought to be Yukawa's particle, but it later proved to have the wrong properties. Source: Internet

Each type of meson has a corresponding antiparticle (antimeson) in which quarks are replaced by their corresponding antiquarks and vice versa. Source: Internet

Initially after its discovery in 1936, the muon (initially called the "mu meson") was thought to be this particle, since it has a mass of 106 MeV. Source: Internet

It represents whether or not the wavefunction of the meson remains the same under the interchange of their quark with their antiquark. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

mesomycetozoan mesomyodian mesomyodous meson p meson p0 meson physics