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hadron

had·ron [ ˈha-ˌdrän]

hadron

noun

[ˈha-ˌdrän]

Definition of hadron

: any of the subatomic particles (such as protons and neutrons) that are made up of quarks and are subject to the strong force

Other Words from hadron

hadronic \ ha-ˈdrä-nik \ adjective

Recent Examples on the Web

//Then there are dozens of particles made up of those elementary particles, including hadrons, which are constructed of quarks and gluons, and mesons, made of a quark and anti-quark.
— Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting A Huge Power Boost," 19 June 2018
//Physicists wanted to know what these hadrons — particularly the buildings blocks of the atom's nucleus, the proton and neutron — were made of.
— Amina Khan, latimes.com, "Richard Taylor, Stanford physicist who won Nobel Prize for discovering quarks, dies at 88," 29 Mar. 2018
//Among these were composite particles called hadrons.
— Dylan Loeb Mcclain, New York Times, "Richard E. Taylor, Nobel Winner Who Plumbed Matter, Is Dead at 88," 1 Mar. 2018
//Quarks are tiny particles that are the building blocks of larger particles like protons, neutrons, and omega baryons, collectively called hadrons.
— Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "Scientists At Large Hadron Collider Discover Five New Particle States," 21 Mar. 2017
//Hadrons are a class of subatomic particles that includes protons and neutrons.
— Richard Martin, WIRED, "The God Particle and the Grid," 1 Apr. 2004
//So do electrons and particles called hadrons, but their showers differ subtly from those of photons.
— Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, "AI is changing how we do science. Get a glimpse," 5 July 2017
//There are six different types of quark—up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom—and most hadrons are made up of different combinations of two or three of them.
— Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "Scientists At Large Hadron Collider Discover Five New Particle States," 21 Mar. 2017

First Known Use of hadron

1962, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for hadron

International Scientific Vocabulary hadr- thick, heavy (from Greek hadros thick) + -on entry 2

Dictionary Entries near hadron