ANTILEPTON

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The antiparticle of a lepton

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("antilepton" is a kind of...):

elementary particle; fundamental particle ((physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antilepton"):

antimuon; positive muon (the antiparticle of a muon; decays to positron and neutrino and antineutrino)

antineutrino (the antiparticle of a neutrino)

antitauon; tau-plus particle (an antilepton of very great mass)

antielectron; positron (an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation)