Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a class of subatomic particles that are both hadrons and fermions, are composed of three quarks, participate in strong interactions, and are generally more massive than mesons and leptons. The class of baryons is divided into the nucleons and hyperons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics A heavy
subatomic particle created by the binding ofquarks bygluons ; ahadron containing three quarks. Baryons have half-odd integral spin and are thusfermions . This category includes the commonproton andneutron of theatomic nucleus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This pattern is known by the term "baryon acoustic oscillations".
BBC News - Home 2011
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Since 1970, theorists had been predicting another, subtler structure, superimposed on the 300-million-light-year structure and called baryon acoustic oscillations.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Since 1970, theorists had been predicting another, subtler structure, superimposed on the 300-million-light-year structure and called baryon acoustic oscillations.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Since 1970, theorists had been predicting another, subtler structure, superimposed on the 300-million-light-year structure and called baryon acoustic oscillations.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Since 1970, theorists had been predicting another, subtler structure, superimposed on the 300-million-light-year structure and called baryon acoustic oscillations.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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A baryon is a particle of matter made of three fundamental building blocks called quarks.
Fermilab Physicists Discover "triple-scoop" Baryon Staq Mavlen 2007
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A baryon is a particle of matter made of three fundamental building blocks called quarks.
Archive 2007-06-01 Staq Mavlen 2007
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BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the most ambitious attempt yet to history of the Universe using the technique known as baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO).
WN.com - Articles related to In search of the next Stephen Hawking 2009
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BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the most ambitious attempt yet to history of the Universe using the technique known as baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO).
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BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the most ambitious attempt yet to history of the Universe using the technique known as baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO).
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