Mesotron
/ˈmɛs.əˌtɹɒn/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 meson dated
- 2 an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsEtymology
From meso- + -tron. Coined by American physicists Carl Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer in 1938 in a letter to Nature titled "Mesotron (Intermediate Particle) as a Name for the New Particles of Intermediate Mass".