HYPERON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hyperon mean? 

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

1. any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPERON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

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)

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

lambda hyperon; lambda particle (an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin 1)