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Lepton
Meaning
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).
●
A small,
bronze
Judean
coin
from the 1st
century
BCE, considered by some to be the widow's mite.
●
In Particle physics & Leptons:
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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Origin
lepton
English
λεπτόν
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
Related
Quasiparticle
Electron
Particle
Nucleon
Muon
Quark
Ion
Strange Quark
Electron Neutrino
Harmonic Oscillator
Sterile Neutrino
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