Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a class of subatomic particles that are composed of two or three quarks and participate in strong interactions. The class of hadrons is divided into the mesons and baryons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics A strongly interacting particle such as a
proton . A particle which is affected by thestrong nuclear force . A hadron is composed ofquarks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The term hadron refers to particles composed of quarks.
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The term hadron refers to particles composed of quarks.
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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.
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"In particle physics, a hadron is a bound state of quarks.
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How backward do you have to be to build a large hadron collider?
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Apparently he's studying what happens when you put a Yorkshire pudding in the hadron collider at Cern in Geneva.
Simon Hoggart's week: A tweet in store – Mrs Farnsbarns and the milkman 2011
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We started uttering other unknown words, like muon, lepton, and hadron.
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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?"
Victor Stenger: The Folly of Faith Victor Stenger 2011
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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?"
Victor Stenger: The Folly of Faith Victor Stenger 2011
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