| NOUN | object | baryon, heavy particle | any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions |
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| Meaning | Any 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. | |
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| Synonym | heavy particle | |
| Narrower | hyperon | Any baryon that is not a nucleon |
| nucleon | A constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus | |
| Broader | fermion | Any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle |
| hadron | Any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles | |
| Spanish | barión | |
| Catalan | barió | |
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