LEPTON (lepta)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: lepta   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lepton mean? 

• LEPTON (noun)
  The noun LEPTON has 2 senses:

1. 100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece

2. an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0

  Familiarity information: LEPTON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEPTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

Greek monetary unit (monetary unit in Greece)

Holonyms ("lepton" is a part of...):

drachma; Greek drachma (formerly the basic unit of money in Greece)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

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

fermion (any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle)

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

electron; negatron (an elementary particle with negative charge)

mu-meson; muon; negative muon (an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino)

neutrino (an elementary, electrically neutral particle with a very small mass)

tau-minus particle; tauon (a lepton of very great mass)