Word.ws English Dictionary

mu-meson

mu-meson noun: a muon (kind of subatomic particle).

Noun

mu-meson (plural mu-mesons)

  1. (dated) A muon (kind of subatomic particle).
    • One instance of an unexpected result is the mu meson and its neutrino, which was not guessed by anybody at all before it was discovered, and even today nobody yet has any method of guessing by which this would be a natural result.1965, Richard Phillips Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, M.I.T. Press, page 157

Forms of mu-meson

pluralmu-mesons
alternative formmu meson

Origin of mu-meson

From mu + meson.

Questions about mu-meson

What does mu-meson mean?
Mu-meson means a muon (kind of subatomic particle).
What part of speech is mu-meson?
Mu-meson is a noun.
What is the plural of mu-meson?
The plural of mu-meson is mu-mesons.

Words near mu-meson in the dictionary

  1. Mu'tazilis
  2. Mu'tazilism
  3. Mu'tazilite
  4. Mu'tazilites
  5. mu'umu'u
  6. mu-meson
  7. mu-mesons
  8. mu-metal
  9. Mu-qed
  10. Mu-tan-chiang
  11. Mu-yeh

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mu-meson (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mu-meson.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mu-meson. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.