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hadron

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhæd.ɹɒn/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈhæd.ɹɑn/
  • CMU ARPABET: HH AE1 D R AO2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A composite particle that comprises two or more quarks held together by the strong force and (consequently) can interact with other particles via said force; a meson or a baryon.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: particle

Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: elementary particle, fundamental particle

Narrower terms: antibaryon, antimeson, baryon, heavy particle, meson, mesotron

History

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἁδρός (hadrós, “thick”) + -on. Coined by Russian physicist Lev Okun in 1962 in a plenary talk at the International Conference on High Energy Physics.

Across languages

Translations

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: հադրոն (hadron) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Basque: hadroi — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Catalan: hadró — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Chinese Mandarin: 強子 /强子 (qiángzǐ) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Czech: hadron — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Dutch: hadron — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Esperanto: hadrono — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Finnish: hadroni — composite particle composed of quarks
  • French: hadron — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Galician: hadrón — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Georgian: ჰადრონი (hadroni) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • German: Hadron — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Greek: αδρόνιο (adrónio) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Ido: hadrono — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Italian: adrone — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Japanese: ハドロン (hadoron) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Kazakh: адрон (adron) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Khmer: បុថូណូ (poh tho no) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Khmer: ប្រថូណូ (bror tho no) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Korean: 강입자 (gang'ipja) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Macedonian: хадро́н (hadrón) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Mongolian: адрон (adron) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Persian: هادرون (hâdrun) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Polish: hadron — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Portuguese: hadrão — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Portuguese: hádron — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Russian: адро́н (adrón) — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Serbo-Croatian: ха̀дро̄н — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Serbo-Croatian: hàdrōn — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Slovak: hadrón — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Slovene: hadrón — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Spanish: hadrón — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Swedish: hadron — composite particle composed of quarks
  • Turkish: hadron — composite particle composed of quarks