lepton
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈlɛptɒn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛptɒn
Etymology 1
editFrom Ancient Greek λεπτόν (leptón), neuter form of λεπτός (leptós, “small”).
Noun
editlepton (plural lepta or leptons)
- A coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a phoenix, a drachma, and a euro (as the Greek form of the Eurocent).
- A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BCE, considered by some to be the widow's mite.
Translations
editGreek coin
Etymology 2
editFrom Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós) + -on. Coined by Dutch-American physicist Abraham Pais in 1947.
Noun
editlepton (plural leptons)
- (particle physics) An elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact via the strong nuclear force; examples include the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon.
- 1950, Tadao Nakano, “Radiative Correction to Decay Processes”, in Progress of Theoretical Physics, volume 5, number 6:
- In the present paper we deal with the second order radiative correction to the beta disintegration of nucleon, assuming the Fermi's interaction between necleon and lepton fields, and show that there appears such an ultraviolet divergence as can not be removed by the procedure of renormalization of mass and coupling constant, so far as a single type of coupling is assumed for the decay Hamiltonian.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editelementary particle
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Anagrams
editDutch
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek λεπτόν (leptón), neuter form of λεπτός (leptós, “small”).
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: lep‧ton
Noun
editlepton n (plural leptonen)
French
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlepton m (plural leptons)
Further reading
edit- “lepton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from English lepton, from Ancient Greek λεπτόν (leptón).
Noun
editlepton m inan
Derived terms
editadjective
Etymology 2
editLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek λεπτόν (leptón).
Noun
editlepton m inan
- (historical) lepton (Greek coin)
Declension
editDeclension of lepton
Further reading
edit- lepton in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editlepton m (plural leptoni)
Declension
editDeclension of lepton
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) lepton | leptonul | (niște) leptoni | leptonii |
genitive/dative | (unui) lepton | leptonului | (unor) leptoni | leptonilor |
vocative | leptonule | leptonilor |
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