
Meaning of HEAVY PARTICLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'hevee'pârtikul
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[n] 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 |
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| | Synonyms: | | baryon |
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| | See Also: | | fermion, hadron, hyperon, nucleon | |
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