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FERMION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("fermion" is a kind of...):
particle; subatomic particle (a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fermion"):
baryon; heavy particle (any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1)
lepton (an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0)
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