hadron
pronunciation
How to pronounce hadron in British English:
UK ['hædrən]
How to pronounce hadron in American English:
US ['hædrən]
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- Noun:
- any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles
Word Origin
- hadron (n.)
- 1962, from Greek hadros "thick, bulky" (the primary sense), also "strong, great; large, well-grown, ripe," from PIE root *sa- "to satisfy" (see sad). With elementary particle suffix -on. Coined in Russian as adron.
Example
- 1. Large hadron collider to get first taste of proton beam
- 2. Popular accounts of the large hadron collider often say it 's trying toapproximate the conditions at the big bang .
- 3. Some of our banners will warn you that we can make mini black holes at the large hadron collider at cern .
- 4. The essential fuzziness of biological systems can never be captured by the precise , mathematically based experiments of something like the large hadron collider .
- 5. The yet unexplored range is accessible using the large hadron collider , which will determine the existence of the higgs boson .