Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various elementary particles consisting of a charm quark and an antiquark.
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- noun physics Any
meson formed from acharm quark and itsantiquark .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From charm.]
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Examples
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a charmonium, which is a bound state of the c quark and its anti-particle.
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In this connection, a few Japanese groups, including mine, were investigating a four-quark model but were not able to predict the long lifetime of the charmonium state.
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