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lepton
noun pl. lepta
- a small coin of ancient Greece
- a former monetary unit of modern Greece, equal to of a drachma
noun
Particle Physics any of a class of fermions subject to the weak interaction but not the strong interaction, as the electron, neutrino, muon, or tau particle
Related Forms:
- leptonic adjective
See lepton in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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