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tachyons

tachyons is the plural of tachyon.

Meaning of tachyon

Noun

tachyon (plural tachyons)

  1. (particle) A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
  2. A flaw in a physical theory that predicts the existence of tachyons or similar paradoxical results. Compare with ghost.

Questions about tachyons

What is tachyons the plural of?
Tachyons is the plural of tachyon.

Words near tachyons in the dictionary

  1. tachymyopathy
  2. tachyon
  3. tachyonic
  4. tachyonic antitelephone
  5. tachyonic antitelephones
  6. tachyons
  7. tachypace
  8. tachypaced
  9. tachypaces
  10. tachypacing
  11. tachyphagia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tachyons (page history and authors); tachyon (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.

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