Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of a class of subatomic particles that are composed of quarks and take part in the strong interaction. See Table at subatomic particle.
Wiktionary
- n. physics A strongly interacting particle such as a proton. A particle which is affected by the strong nuclear force. A hadron is composed of quarks.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physics) any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek ἁδρός (hadros, "thick"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek hadros, thick; see sā- in Indo-European roots + -on1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term hadron refers to particles composed of quarks.”
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“Web users have had particular trouble with the unfamiliar "hadron" - the collective name for the particles used in the experiments.”
“In particle physics, a hadron is a bound state of quarks.”
“Science poses the question, "What are you going to believe: the dreams and fantasies of ancient mystics or your eyes, ears, telescopes, magnetic resonance imaging, hadron colliders, and above all, reason and rigorous questioning of all extraordinary claims?”
“How backward do you have to be to build a large hadron collider?”
“Apparently he's studying what happens when you put a Yorkshire pudding in the hadron collider at Cern in Geneva.”
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“We started uttering other unknown words, like muon, lepton, and hadron.”
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“My Goodness ... if Ken Spain put any more spin on that nobody would need a large hadron collider.”
“The latest news from the neo-light-speed hadron collisions seems to confirm string theory, the Gospel of John and also Genesis in that the energy patterns the collisions form translate into musical sounds!”
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