Definitions for kaonˈkeɪ ɒn

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

ka•onˈkeɪ ɒn(n.)

  1. a meson with strangeness +1 and either positive or zero electric charge, or its antiparticle with strangeness −1 and either negative or zero electric charge.

    Category: Physics

    Ref: Symbol: K 3 5; Also called K meson.

Origin of kaon:

1955–60; ka- (sp. of name of letter k) + (mes )on

ka•on′ic(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. kaon, kappa-meson, k-meson, K particle(noun)

    an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision

Wiktionary

  1. kaon(Noun)

    any of four unstable subatomic particles, mesons, they are a combination of a strange quark or antiquark and either an up or down quark or antiquark

  2. Origin: From contracted pronunciation of K-meson


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