Neutrino Definition

no͝o-trēnō, nyo͝o-
neutrinos
noun
Any of three stable leptons having a mass approaching zero and no charge: a neutrino has almost no interaction with matter.
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Other Word Forms of Neutrino

Noun

Singular:
neutrino
Plural:
neutrinos

Origin of Neutrino

  • Italian from neutrino little neutral one neutro neuter, neutral (from Latin neuter neutr- neuter neuter) -ino dimutive suff. (from Latin -īnus adj. suff. –ine1) Coined by Enrico Fermi on the model of Italian neutrone neutron taken as the augmentative of Italian neutro

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian neutrino (coined by Enrico Fermi), diminutive of neutro (“neutral").

    From Wiktionary

Neutrino Sentence Examples

  • From tritium decay experiments comes an upper limit of 2.2 eV for the electron neutrino.

  • Areas being researched are neutrino astrophysics, the Casimir effect, quantum gravity fluctuations and laboratory astrophysics.

  • Its purpose is to study hadron production for the neutrino factory and to aid understanding of the atmospheric neutrino flux.

  • For each charged lepton flavor there is a corresponding neutrino flavor.

  • Particle physics experiments so far directly establish only values for the square of neutrino mass differences.

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Words Starting With

NNENEU

Words Ending With

ONOINO

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Words Starting With N and Ending With O

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With N8 Letter Words Ending With O