Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a class of six elementary fermions, two in each of the three generations of fundamental fermions (one negatively charged and one neutral), and including the electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tauon, and tauon neutrino, together with their associated antiparticles, the antileptons. Leptons participate in weak interactions, but not strong interactions, and have masses generally less than those of mesons and baryons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The smallest coin of modern Greece, equal to a centime. One hundred lepta make a drachma.
- noun The typical genus of Leptonidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions but does not participate in the strong interaction; it has a baryon number of 0. Some known leptons are the
electron , thenegative muon , thetau-minus particle , and the neutrinos associated with each of these particles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An elementary particle with a spin of 1/2 (a
fermion ) which is immune to thestrong nuclear force (including theelectron , themuon , theneutrino and thetauon ). - noun A small,
bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BC. The lowest value coin ever in circulation. Considered by some to be thewidow's mite .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0
- noun 100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The best known lepton is the electron; the other five are the muon, the tau particle, and three matching neutrinos.
Archive 2006-12-10 Edward Willett 2006
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The best known lepton is the electron; the other five are the muon, the tau particle, and three matching neutrinos.
Researching the glue that holds the universe together Edward Willett 2006
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The coin was called a lepton and it took one hundred of them to make a denarius—an average day’s wage for a laborer.
The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006
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The coin was called a lepton and it took one hundred of them to make a denarius—an average day’s wage for a laborer.
The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006
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Contraction of minute, from the Latin minutum, the translation of the Greek word lepton, the very smallest bronze of copper coin (Luke 12: 59; 21: 2).
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Also there is six kind of lepton, that is electron (e), muon (µ), tau (t), neutrino-electron (?
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The chamber permitted particles to be tracked with a precision of better than 1mm, as a result of which several novel ephemeral subatomic particles have been discovered, such as the tau-lepton – a heavy version of the electron – and exotic varieties of quarks.
Georges Charpak obituary Frank Close 2010
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We started uttering other unknown words, like muon, lepton, and hadron.
365 tomorrows » Mission Earth : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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We started uttering other unknown words, like muon, lepton, and hadron.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
fbharjo commented on the word lepton
run of the mill????
May 22, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word lepton
widow's mite (might)!
May 22, 2011