meson

See also: Meson, mesón, méson, and mêson

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *me

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe

Proto-Indo-European *médʰi

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos

Proto-Hellenic *métsos

Ancient Greek μέσον (méson)

English meson

From Ancient Greek μέσον (méson, “middle”). Doublet of medium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛs.ɒn/

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Noun

meson (plural mesons)

1. (rare outside entomology) The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves.

Derived terms

• ventrimeson
• dorsimeson

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *me

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe

Proto-Indo-European *médʰi

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos

Proto-Hellenic *métsos

Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos)der.

English meso-

Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.

Latin ēlectrum

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

New Latin ēlectricusbor.

English electric

Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti

Proto-Hellenic *éimi

Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión)der.

English ion

blend

English electronbf.

▲

Ancient Greek -ον (-on)influ.

English -on

English meson

From meso- + -on. Coined by Indian physicist Homi Bhabha in 1939, as a modification of the earlier suggestion mesotron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːzɒn/, /ˈ-sɒn/, /ˈmɛ-/

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Noun

meson (plural mesons)

1. (obsolete) A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.)
2. (now specifically, particle physics) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.)

Synonyms

• mesotron

Hypernyms

• boson
• hadron

Hyponyms

• scalar meson
• vector meson

Derived terms

• antimeson
• B meson
• dimeson
• eta meson
• exotic meson
• hybrid meson
• hypermeson
• intermeson
• J/psi meson
• J/ψ meson
• K-meson
• mesic
• mesonic
• mesonics
• mesonium
• multimeson
• mu-meson
• photomeson
• pi meson
• pi-minus meson
• pi-plus meson
• rho meson
• upsilon meson

Translations

elementary particle

• Armenian: մեզոն (mezon)
• Catalan: mesó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 介子 (zh) (jièzǐ)

• Dutch: meson (nl) n
• Esperanto: mezono
• Finnish: mesoni (fi)
• French: méson (fr) m
• Georgian: მეზონი (mezoni)
• German: Meson (de) n
• Gujarati: મધ્યાણુ m (madhyāṇu)
• Hindi: मध्याणु m (madhyāṇu)
• Icelandic: miðeind (is) f
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: mesone (it) m
• Japanese: 中間子 (ja) (chūkanshi), メソン (meson), メゾン (mezon)
• Khmer: មជ្ឈាណូ (mach chea no)
• Lithuanian: mezonas m
• Marathi: मध्याणू (madhyāṇū)
• Mongolian: мезон (mezon) ᠮᠧᠽᠣᠨ (mēzon)
• Nepali: मध्याणु (madhyāṇu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: meson n

  Nynorsk: meson (nn) n

• Polish: mezon (pl) m
• Portuguese: mesão (pt) m (Portugal), méson (pt) m (Brazil)
• Russian: мезо́н (ru) m (mezón)
• Sanskrit: मध्याणु m (madhyāṇu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мѐзо̄н m

  Latin: mèzōn (sh) m

• Slovene: mezón m
• Swedish: meson (sv) c
• Tagalog: tungapik
• Tamil: இடையி (iṭaiyi)
• Turkish: mezon (tr)

Anagrams

• 'mones, Mones, Semon, mones, nomes, omens, semon, somen

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

meson n (plural mesonen, no diminutive)

1. (physics) meson

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeson/
• Rhymes: -eson
• Syllabification: me‧son

Noun

meson

1. accusative singular of meso

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.zɔ̃/

Noun

meson m (plural mesons)

1. alternative spelling of méson

Middle English

Alternative forms

• measoun

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman maisun (“house”).

Noun

meson (plural mesons)

1. a house

References

• “meson, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Alternative forms

• maisun
• maison

Etymology

From Latin mansiō, mansiōnem (“abode, home, dwelling”).

Noun

meson oblique singular, f (oblique plural mesons, nominative singular meson, nominative plural mesons)

1. house

Descendants

• French: maison
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: mésun, moésun