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pi meson

pi meson noun: a pion, a type of meson.

Noun

pi meson (plural pi mesons)

  1. (dated, formal) A pion, a type of meson.
    • There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146
    Synonyms:
    pion, πon, π-on

Synonyms of pi meson

Forms of pi meson

pluralpi mesons
alternative formπ meson
alternative formπ-meson
alternative formpi-meson

Origin of pi meson

From pi (“π”) + meson.

Questions about pi meson

What does pi meson mean?
Pi meson means a pion, a type of meson.
What part of speech is pi meson?
Pi meson is a noun.
What is the plural of pi meson?
The plural of pi meson is pi mesons.

Words near pi meson in the dictionary

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  8. pi minus
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  10. pi plus
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