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baryon

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Noun

HYPHEN

bar=y=on

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun baryon has 1 sense

baryon(n = noun.object) heavy particle - any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1; Array

is a kind of fermion, hadron

has particulars: hyperon, nucleon

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CIDE DICTIONARY

baryon, n.

any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1. [WordNet 1.5]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

baryon, n. Physics an elementary particle that is of equal mass to or greater mass than a proton (i.e. is a nucleon or a hyperon).

Derivative

baryonic adj.

Etymology

Gk barus heavy + -ON

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