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gigaelectron volt

gigaelectron volt noun: one thousand million electron volts, abbreviated as GeV.

Noun

gigaelectron volt (plural gigaelectron volts)

  1. One thousand million electron volts, abbreviated as GeV
    • The CMS team claimed they had seen a "bump" in their data corresponding to a particle weighing in at 125.3 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) - about 133 times heavier than the protons that lie at the heart of every atom.
      They claimed that by combining two data sets, they had attained a confidence level just...2012 July 4, Paul Rincon, “Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC”, in bbc.co.uk

Forms of gigaelectron volt

pluralgigaelectron volts

Origin of gigaelectron volt

From giga- + electronvolt.

Questions about gigaelectron volt

What does gigaelectron volt mean?
Gigaelectron volt means one thousand million electron volts, abbreviated as GeV.
What part of speech is gigaelectron volt?
Gigaelectron volt is a noun.
What is the plural of gigaelectron volt?
The plural of gigaelectron volt is gigaelectron volts.

Words near gigaelectron volt in the dictionary

  1. gigacycles
  2. gigadalton
  3. gigadaltons
  4. gigadeath
  5. gigadeaths
  6. gigaelectron volt
  7. gigaelectron volts
  8. gigaelectronvolt
  9. gigaelectronvolts
  10. gigafactories
  11. gigafactory

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