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PION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision
Synonyms:
pi-meson; pion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("pion" is a kind of...):
meson; mesotron (an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0)