muon

See also: muón, múon, muôn, muốn, mướn, muộn, and mượn

English

Etymology

Contraction of mu-meson; the particle has now been recategorised as a lepton.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmjuːɒn/

Noun

muon (plural muons)

(physics) An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 209 times greater.

Translations

an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: մյուոն (myuon)
Basque: muoi
Bengali: মিউওন (miuon)
Catalan: muó (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: μ子
Dutch: muon (nl) n
Esperanto: muono
Finnish: myoni (fi)
French: muon (fr) m
Galician: muón (gl) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: please add this translation if you can
Greek: μιόνιο (el) n (miónio)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can

Hungarian: müon
Ido: muono (io)
Italian: muone (it) m
Japanese: ミュー粒子 (myū ryūshi)
Khmer: មុយាណូ (muy yea no)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: myon n
Persian: میون‎, میوآن‎ (myuân)
Polish: mion (pl) m
Portuguese: muão m (Portugal), múon m (Brazil)
Russian: мюо́н (ru) m (mjuón)
Spanish: muon (es) m
Swedish: myon (sv) c
Tagalog: mu tungapik
Thai: มิวออน
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

muon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

moun

Dutch

Etymology

Contraction of mu-meson

Pronunciation

Audio (file)
Hyphenation: mu‧on

Noun

muon n (plural muonen)

(physics) muon

Esperanto

Noun

muon

accusative singular of muo

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