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antiproton

antiproton

See also: antipróton

English

Noun

antiproton (plural antiprotons)

  1. (physics) The antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge.
    • 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
      There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them [, i]n order of increasing modernity, [] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃tipʁɔtɔ̃/

Noun

antiproton m (plural antiprotons)

  1. (physics) antiproton