HADRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hadron mean? 

• HADRON (noun)
  The noun HADRON has 1 sense:

1. any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles

  Familiarity information: HADRON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HADRON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("hadron" is a kind of...):

elementary particle; fundamental particle ((physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter)

Meronyms (parts of "hadron"):

antiquark (the antiparticle of a quark)

quark ((physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hadron"):

antibaryon (the antiparticle of a baryon; a hadron with a baryon number of -1)

antimeson (the antiparticle of a meson)

baryon; heavy particle (any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1)

meson; mesotron (an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0)