tauon

See also: tauón, táuon, and taŭon

English

Etymology

From tau +‎ -on, tau short for Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos, “third”), being the third lepton discovered.

Noun

tauon (plural tauons)

1. An unstable elementary particle which is a type of lepton, having a mass almost twice that of a proton, a negative charge, and a spin of ½; it decays into hadrons (usually pions) or other leptons, and neutrinos.

   Synonyms: tau, tau lepton, tau particle

Derived terms

• antitauon
• tauonic
• tauonium

Translations

particle

• Catalan: tauó (ca) m
• Dutch: tauon n, taudeeltje n
• Esperanto: taŭono
• Finnish: tau (fi)
• French: tauon (fr) m, tau (fr) m
• Icelandic: táeind f
• Ido: tauono (io)
• Italian: tauone (it) m
• Japanese: タウ粒子 (ja) (tau ryūshi)
• Polish: taon (pl) m
• Portuguese: tauão m (Portugal), táuon m (Brazil)
• Russian: тау-лептон m (tau-lepton), таон m (taon)
• Swedish: tauon (sv) c
• Tagalog: taw tungapik

See also

• tau neutrino
• antitauon

Anagrams

• Auton, auton

Dutch

Noun

tauon n (plural tauonen)

1. (physics) tauon

Synonyms

• taudeeltje

Finnish

Noun

tauon

1. genitive singular of tauko

Anagrams

• Tauno, auton, ontua, tuona

Japanese

Romanization

tauon

1. Rōmaji transcription of タウオン