antiproton

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English

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Etymology

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anti- +‎ proton

Noun

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antiproton (plural antiprotons)

  1. (physics) The antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge.
    • 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 146:
      There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ti.pʁɔ.tɔ̃/
  • Audio (Paris):(file)

Noun

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antiproton m (plural antiprotons)

  1. (physics) antiproton

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French antiproton.

Noun

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antiproton m (plural antiprotoni)

  1. antiproton

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