meson

See also: Meson, mesón, méson, and mêson

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μέσον (méson, “middle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛs.ɒn/

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Noun

meson (plural mesons)

1. (rare outside entomology) The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves.

Derived terms

• ventrimeson
• dorsimeson

Etymology 2

From meso- +‎ on. Coined by Indian physicist Homi Bhabha in 1939, as a modification of the earlier suggestion mesotron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːzɒn/, /ˈ-sɒn/, /ˈmɛ-/

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Noun

meson (plural mesons)

1. (obsolete) A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.)
2. (now specifically, physics) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.)

Synonyms

• mesotron

Hypernyms

• boson
• hadron

Hyponyms

• scalar meson
• vector meson

Derived terms

• antimeson
• dimeson
• eta meson
• exotic meson
• hybrid meson
• J/psi meson
• K-meson
• mesic
• mesonic
• mesonics
• mesonium
• multimeson
• mu-meson
• photomeson
• pi meson
• rho meson
• upsilon meson

 

Translations

elementary particle

• Armenian: մեզոն (mezon)
• Catalan: mesó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 介子 (zh) (jièzǐ)

• Dutch: meson (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: mesoni (fi)
• French: méson (fr) m
• German: Meson (de) n
• Gujarati: મધ્યાણુ m (madhyāṇu)
• Hindi: मध्याणु m (madhyāṇu)
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: mesone (it) m
• Japanese: 中間子 (ja) (chūkanshi), メソン (meson), メゾン (mezon)
• Khmer: មជ្ឈាណូ (mach chea no)
• Lithuanian: mezonas m
• Marathi: मध्याणू (madhyāṇū)
• Mongolian: мезон (mezon) ᠮᠧᠽᠣᠨ (mēzon)
• Nepali: मध्याणु (madhyāṇu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: meson n

  Nynorsk: meson (nn) n

• Polish: mezon m
• Portuguese: mesão (pt) m (Portugal), méson (pt) m (Brazil)
• Russian: мезо́н (ru) m (mezón)
• Sanskrit: मध्याणु m (madhyāṇu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мѐзо̄н m

  Roman: mèzōn (sh) m

• Slovene: mezón m
• Swedish: meson (sv) c
• Tagalog: tungapik
• Tamil: இடையி (iṭaiyi)
• Turkish: mezon (tr)

Anagrams

• 'mones, Mones, Semon, mones, nomes, omens, semon, somen

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

meson n (plural mesonen)

1. (physics) meson

Esperanto

Noun

meson

1. accusative singular of meso

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.zɔ̃/

Noun

meson m (plural mesons)

1. Alternative spelling of méson

Old French

Alternative forms

• maisun
• maison

Etymology

From Latin mansiō, mansiōnem (“abode, home, dwelling”).

Noun

meson oblique singular, f (oblique plural mesons, nominative singular meson, nominative plural mesons)

1. house

Descendants

• French: maison