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ALL meanings of kaon

ka·on
K k
  • noun kaon a meson with strangeness +1 and either positive or zero electric charge, or its antiparticle, with strangeness −1 and either negative or zero electric charge. Symbol: K. 1
  • noun kaon A meson having a mass several times that of a pion. 1
  • noun kaon a meson that has a positive or negative charge and a rest mass of about 966 electron masses, or no charge and a rest mass of 974 electron masses 0
  • noun kaon any of four short-lived mesons that are positive, negative, or neutral and have a mass of 495 MeV/c2 (about 970 times that of an electron) 0
  • noun kaon (physics) any of four unstable subatomic particles, mesons, they are a combination of a strange quark or antiquark and either an up or down quark or antiquark. 0
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