neutrino
English edit
Etymology edit
Coined by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in 1933 from neutron + the Italian diminutive suffix -ino.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /njuːˈtɹiːnəʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /nuˈtɹinoʊ/
- Rhymes: -iːnəʊ
- Hyphenation: neu‧tri‧no
Noun edit
neutrino (plural neutrinos)
- An elementary particle that is classified as a lepton, and has an extremely small but nonzero mass and no electric charge. It interacts with the surroundings only via the weak force or gravitation, making it very difficult to detect.
- 2011 September 22, Nick Collins, “Speed of light 'broken' by scientists”, in Daily Telegraph[1]:
- But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claim they have recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometres) per second.
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Translations edit
An elementary particle with extremely small mass and no electric charge
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Czech edit
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neutrino n
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Dutch edit
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Audio (file)
Noun edit
neutrino n (plural neutrino's)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
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neutrino m (plural neutrinos)
Further reading edit
- “neutrino”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
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neutrino m (plural neutrinos)
Ido edit
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neutrino (plural neutrini)
Northern Sami edit
Etymology edit
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neutrīno
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This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading edit
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English neutrino.
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neutrino n
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Declension of neutrino
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noun
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Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: neu‧tri‧no
Noun edit
neutrino m (plural neutrinos)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French neutrino.
Noun edit
neutrino m (uncountable)
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declension of neutrino (singular only)
singular | ||
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m gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) neutrino | neutrinoul |
genitive/dative | (unui) neutrino | neutrinoului |
vocative | neutrinoule |
Serbo-Croatian edit
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Noun edit
neutríno m (Cyrillic spelling неутри́но)
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Declension of neutrino
singular | plural | |
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nominative | neutríno | neutríni |
genitive | neutrína | neutrínā |
dative | neutrínu | neutrínima |
accusative | neutríno | neutríne |
vocative | neutríno | neutríni |
locative | neutrínu | neutrínima |
instrumental | neutrínom | neutrínima |
Spanish edit
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neutrino m (plural neutrinos)
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Further reading edit
- “neutrino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014