Lepton Definition

lĕptŏn
lepta, leptons
noun
A small coin of ancient Greece.
Webster's New World
A former monetary unit of modern Greece, equal to1100 of a drachma.
Webster's New World
Any of a class of fermions subject to the weak interaction but not the strong interaction, as the electron, neutrino, muon, or tau particle.
Webster's New World

A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BC. The lowest value coin ever in circulation. Considered by some to be the widow's mite.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Lepton

Noun

Singular:
lepton
Plural:
lepta, leptons

Origin of Lepton

  • From Ancient Greek λεπτόν (lepton), neuter form of λεπτός (leptos, “small").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptos) +"Ž -on.

    From Wiktionary

  • lepto– –on

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

Lepton Sentence Examples

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

  • Perl led the team of scientists that found the tau lepton in electron-positron collisions in 1975.

  • The chief points in which they vary are - (1) in the structure of the ctenidia or branchial plates; (2) in the presence of one or of two chief muscles, the fibres of which run across the animal's body from one valve of the shell to the other (adductors); (3) in the greater or less elaboration of the posterior portion of the mantle-skirt so as to form a pair of tubes, by one of which water is introduced into the sub-pallial chamber, whilst by the other it is expelled; (4) in the perfect or deficient symmetry of the two valves of the shell and the connected soft parts, as compared with one another; (5) in the development of the foot as a disk-like crawling organ (Arca, Nucula, Pectunculus, Trigonia, Lepton, Galeomma), as a simple plough-like or tongueshaped organ (Unionidae, &c.), as a re-curved saltatory organ (Cardium, &c.), as a long burrowing cylinder (Solenidae, &c.), or its partial (Mytilacea) or even complete abortion (Ostraeacea).

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Words Starting With

LLELEP

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NONTON

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