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Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark;
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: particle
Qualifier: Standard Model
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
Examples
- The fermions treated by the Standard Model are the (composite) baryons and the (elementary) leptons and quarks.
- According to the spin–statistics theorem, the wavefunction of a system of identical fermions (particles of half-integer spin) is antisymmetric under the operation of swapping any two particles.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark; (slightly more loosely) any such particle or any composite particle composed of fermions.
any such particle or any composite particle composed of fermions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: particle
Qualifier: Standard Model; slightly more loosely
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: particle, subatomic particle
Narrower terms: baryon, heavy particle, lepton
From Fermi + -on. Named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi. Coined by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1945 in a lecture titled "Developments in Atomic Theory".
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
فرميون
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Armenian:
ֆերմիոն
(fermion)
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Basque:
fermioi
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Bengali:
ফার্মিয়ন
(pharmiẏon)
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Catalan:
fermió
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Chinese Mandarin:
费米子
(fèimǐzǐ)
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Czech:
fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Danish:
fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Dutch:
fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Esperanto:
fermiono
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Finnish:
fermioni
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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French:
fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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German:
Fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Hungarian:
fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Ido:
fermiono
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Italian:
fermione
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Japanese:
フェルミ粒子
(ferumi ryūshi)
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Japanese:
フェルミオン
(ferumion)
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Khmer:
ផ្វឺរមីយាណូ
(fɨɨmiiyion)
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Mongolian:
фермион
(fermion)
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Norwegian Bokmål:
fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Persian:
فرمیون
(fermiyon)
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Polish:
fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Brazilian Portuguese:
férmion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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European Portuguese:
fermião
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Russian:
фермио́н
(fermión)
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Serbo-Croatian:
фермион
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Serbo-Croatian:
fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Slovene:
fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Spanish:
fermión
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Swedish:
fermion
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
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Turkish:
fermiyon
— particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states
