NEGATIVE MUON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does negative muon mean? 

• NEGATIVE MUON (noun)
  The noun NEGATIVE MUON has 1 sense:

1. an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino

  Familiarity information: NEGATIVE MUON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGATIVE MUON (noun)

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Meaning:

An elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

mu-meson; muon; negative muon

Hypernyms ("negative muon" is a kind of...):

lepton (an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0)