Thesaurus:elementary particle

Thesaurus

elementary particle

English

Noun

Sense: a subatomic particle not known to have substructure

Synonyms

• elementary particle
• fundamental particle

Hyponyms

• lepton    [⇒ thesaurus]
• quark    [⇒ thesaurus]
• gauge boson    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• subatomic particle    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• atom    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Category:Elementary particles

Further reading

• “elementary particle” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.