Plural of lepton

Forms of lepton

Plural of lepton by meaning

1. an elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact...: leptons
2. a coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a...: lepta or leptons

Leptons in a sentence

• The fermions treated by the Standard Model are the (composite) baryons and the (elementary) leptons and quarks.From the entry fermion
• The understanding of the properties of the quarks and leptons and their interactions is therefore of paramount importance.2006 December, Arnuf Quadt, “Top Quark Physics at Hadron Colliders”, in The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Heidelberg…. From the entry quark
• Leptons became famous as the "widows mites" when Christ observed a widow donating two of them to the temple treasury.2002, Ralph L. Stephenson, chapter 6, in The Biblical Guide to Wealth, Health, and Happiness, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, page 131. From the entry widow's mite
• Various new physics models, e.g., theories of compositeness, can accommodate the color singlet leptohadrons that interact with the leptons, quarks, leptoquarks, etc.2016, Dmitry Zhuridov, “Baryogenesis from leptomesons”, in arXiv. From the entry leptohadrons
• A gauge singlet, the hooperon, induces the GeV gamma ray signal in the Fermi-LAT data through annihilation into vector-like leptons or quarks.2016, Manuel Ernst Krauss, Toby Opferkuch, Florian Staub, Martin Wolfgang Winkler, “The 750 GeV Boson: Dawn of the Super-Hooperon”, in arXiv. From the entry hooperon

Meaning of lepton

1. noun 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. noun A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BCE, considered by some to be the widow's mite.
3. noun 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.

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Questions about the plural of lepton

What is the plural of lepton?

The plural of lepton is leptons.

Is lepton countable?

Lepton is a countable noun.