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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A subatomic particle, such as a proton or neutron, that is composed of two or more elementary particles.
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- noun physics any
particle that is not anelementary particle , namelyhadrons ,atomic nuclei ,atoms andmolecules
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