antiproton

See also: antipróton

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ proton

Noun

antiproton (plural antiprotons)

(physics) The antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge.
- 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist‎, 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.

Synonyms

pbar (symbolic)

Translations

antiparticle of the proton

Basque: antiprotoi
Catalan: antiprotó (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 反質子 (zh), 反质子 (zh) (fǎnzhízi)
Finnish: antiprotoni (fi)
French: antiproton (fr) m
German: Antiproton (de) n
Icelandic: andróteind f

Italian: antiprotone (it) m
Japanese: 反陽子 (han'yōshi)
Polish: antyproton m
Portuguese: antiprotão m (Portugal), antipróton m (Brazil)
Romanian: antiproton (ro) m
Russian: антипрото́н (ru) m (antiprotón)
Spanish: antiprotón m
Tagalog: labanmulasik

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti.pʁɔ.tɔ̃/
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Noun

antiproton m (plural antiprotons)

(physics) antiproton

Further reading

“antiproton” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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