See also: Lepton, leptón, and lépton

English

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Pronunciation

edit

Etymology 1

edit

From Ancient Greek λεπτόν (leptón), neuter form of λεπτός (leptós, small).

Noun

edit

lepton (plural lepta or leptons)

  1. 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).
  2. A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BCE, considered by some to be the widow's mite.
Translations
edit

Etymology 2

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

From Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós) +‎ -on. Coined by Dutch-American physicist Abraham Pais in 1947.

Noun

edit

lepton (plural leptons)

  1. (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
edit
Translations
edit

Anagrams

edit

Dutch

edit
 
Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology

edit

From Ancient Greek λεπτόν (leptón), neuter form of λεπτός (leptós, small).

Pronunciation

edit
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: lep‧ton

Noun

edit

lepton n (plural leptonen)

  1. (physics) lepton

French

edit

Etymology

edit

From Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

lepton m (plural leptons)

  1. (physics) lepton
  2. lepton (coin)

Further reading

edit

Polish

edit
 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Pronunciation

edit

Etymology 1

edit

Borrowed from English lepton, from Ancient Greek λεπτόν (leptón).

Noun

edit

lepton m inan

  1. (particle physics) lepton
Derived terms
edit
adjective

Etymology 2

edit

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λεπτόν (leptón).

Noun

edit

lepton m inan

  1. (historical) lepton (Greek coin)
Declension
edit

Further reading

edit
  • lepton in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

edit

Etymology

edit

Borrowed from French lepton.

Noun

edit

lepton m (plural leptoni)

  1. lepton

Declension

edit