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ANTILEPTON

• ANTILEPTON (noun)
The noun ANTILEPTON has 1 sense:

1. the antiparticle of a lepton

Familiarity information: ANTILEPTON used as a noun is very rare.

• ANTILEPTON (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

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