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leptons

leptons is the plural of lepton.

Meaning of lepton

Noun (1)

lepton (plural lepta or leptons)

  1. A coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a phoenix, a drachma, and a euro (as the Greek form of the Eurocent).
  2. A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BCE, considered by some to be the widow's mite.

Noun (2)

lepton (plural leptons)

  1. (particle) An elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact via the strong nuclear force; examples include the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon.
    • In the present paper we deal with the second order radiative correction to the beta disintegration of nucleon, assuming the Fermi's interaction between necleon and lepton fields, and show that there appears such an ultraviolet divergence as can not be removed by the procedure of renormalization of...1950, Tadao Nakano, “Radiative Correction to Decay Processes”, in Progress of Theoretical Physics, volume 5, number 6

Phrases with leptons

Questions about leptons

What is leptons the plural of?
Leptons is the plural of lepton.

Words near leptons in the dictionary

  1. leptonium
  2. leptoniums
  3. leptonization
  4. leptonless
  5. leptonlike
  6. leptons
  7. leptopellic
  8. leptophilic
  9. leptophlebiid
  10. leptophlebiids
  11. leptophloem

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