elementary particle

English

Noun

elementary particle (plural elementary particles)

1. (physics) A fundamental particle; any of the subatomic particles that do not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.
   • 2012 March, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 146:

     The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.

Synonyms

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Translations

subatomic particle that does not consist of smaller particles

• Arabic: جُسَيْم أَوَّلِيّ (jusaym ʔawwaliyy)
• Armenian: տարրական մասնիկ (tarrakan masnik)
• Bengali: মৌলিক কণা (mōulik kona)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基本粒子 (zh) (jīběn lìzǐ)

• Czech: elementární částice f
• Estonian: algosake
• Finnish: alkeishiukkanen (fi)
• French: particule élémentaire (fr) f
• German: Elementarteilchen (de) n
• Hungarian: elemi részecske (hu)
• Italian: particella elementare (it) f
• Japanese: 基本粒子 (kihon ryūshi), 素粒子 (ja) (soryūshi)
• Norwegian: elementærpartikkel (no) m
• Polish: cząstka elementarna f
• Portuguese: partícula elementar f
• Romanian: particulă elementară (ro) f
• Russian: э̀лемента́рная части́ца (ru) f (èlementárnaja častíca)
• Spanish: partícula elemental (es) f
• Ukrainian: елемента́рна части́нка f (elementárna častýnka)
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