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muon

muon

See also: muón, múon, muôn, muốn, mướn, muộn, and mượn

English

Noun

muon ‎(plural muons)

An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 209 times greater.

Translations

an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family

Arabic:
Armenian: մյուոն ‎(myuon)
Basque: muoi
Bengali: মিউওন ‎(miuon)
Catalan: muó (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: μ子
Dutch: muon (nl) n
Esperanto: muono
French: muon (fr) m
Galician: muón (gl) m
Georgian:
German:
Greek: μιόνιο (el) n ‎(miónio)
Hindi:

Ido: muono (io)
Italian: muone (it) m
Japanese: ミュー粒子 ‎(myū ryūshi)
Khmer: មុយាណូ ‎(muy yea no)
Korean:
Norwegian: myon n
Persian: میون, میوآن ‎(myuân)
Polish: mion m
Portuguese: muão m (Portugal), múon m (Brazil)
Russian: мюо́н (ru) m ‎(mjuón)
Spanish: muon (es) m
Swedish: myon (sv) c
Tagalog: mu tungapik
Thai: มิวออน
Vietnamese:

Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: mu‧on

Etymology

Contraction of mu-meson

Noun

muon n ‎(plural muonen)

(physics) muon

Esperanto

Noun

muon

accusative singular of muo