HyperDic: baryon

English > 1 sense of the word baryon:
NOUNobjectbaryon, heavy particleany of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions
English > baryon: 1 sense > noun 1, object
MeaningAny 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.
Synonymheavy particle
NarrowerhyperonAny baryon that is not a nucleon
nucleonA constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus
BroaderfermionAny particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
hadronAny elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles
Spanishbarión
Catalanbarió

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