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An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: negative muon, mu-meson
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lepton
Contraction of the earlier term mu-meson; the particle has now been recategorised as a lepton. Coined by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in 1951 in his book Elementary Particles.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
մյուոն
(myuon)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Basque:
muoi
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Bengali:
মিউওন
(miuōn)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Catalan:
muó
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Chinese Mandarin:
μ子
(miùzǐ)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Chinese Mandarin:
緲子 /缈子
(miǎozǐ)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Chinese Mandarin:
渺子
(miǎozǐ)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Chinese Mandarin:
繆子 /缪子
(miùzǐ)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Dutch:
muon
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Esperanto:
muono
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Finnish:
myoni
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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French:
muon
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Galician:
muón
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Georgian:
მიუონი
(miuoni)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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German:
Myon
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Greek:
μιόνιο
(miónio)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Hungarian:
müon
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Icelandic:
mýeind
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Ido:
muono
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Italian:
muone
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Japanese:
ミュー粒子
(myū ryūshi)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Khmer:
មុយាណូ
(muy yea no)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Korean:
뮤 입자
(myu ipja)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Norwegian:
myon
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Persian:
میون
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Persian:
میوآن
(myu-ân)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Polish:
mion
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Portuguese:
muão
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Portuguese:
múon
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Russian:
мюо́н
(mjuón)
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Spanish:
muon
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Swedish:
myon
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Tagalog:
mu tungapik
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Thai:
มิวออน
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
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Vietnamese:
muon
— an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family
