SUBATOMIC PARTICLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does subatomic particle mean?
• SUBATOMIC PARTICLE (noun)
The noun SUBATOMIC PARTICLE has 1 sense:
1. a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
Familiarity information: SUBATOMIC PARTICLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SUBATOMIC PARTICLE (noun)
Meaning:
A body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
subatomic particle; particle
Hypernyms ("subatomic particle" is a kind of...):
body (an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "subatomic particle"):
virion ((virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses))
superstring (a hypothetical particle that is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time)
scintilla (a sparkling glittering particles)
virino ((microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins)
prion ((microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system)
micelle (an electrically charged particle built up from polymeric molecules or ions and occurring in certain colloidal electrolytic solutions like soaps and detergents)
magnetic monopole (a hypothetical particle with a single magnetic pole instead of the usual two)
ion (a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons)
fermion (any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle)
elementary particle; fundamental particle ((physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter)
deuteron (the nucleus of deuterium; consists of one proton and one neutron; used as a bombarding particle in accelerators)
boson (any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons)
beta particle (a high-speed electron or positron emitted in the decay of a radioactive isotope)
alpha particle (a positively charged particle that is the nucleus of the helium atom; emitted from natural or radioactive isotopes)
thermion (an electrically charged particle (electron or ion) emitted by a substance at a high temperature)
