Dictionary

antiproton en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *próder. Ancient Greek πρό (pró) Ancient Greek -ᾰτος (-ătos) Ancient Greek πρῶτον (prôton)lbor. English proton English antiproton From anti- + proton.

Meanings

1. The antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge.
   • 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. 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:

Forms

Synonyms

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Translations (18)

ko 반양자 (antiparticle of the proton) · ro antiproton (antiparticle of the proton) · es antiprotón (antiparticle of the proton) · pl antyproton (antiparticle of the proton) · ko 반양성자 (antiparticle of the proton) · pt antiprotão (antiparticle of the proton) · pt antipróton (antiparticle of the proton) · ja 反陽子 (antiparticle of the proton) · fr antiproton (antiparticle of the proton) · is andróteind (antiparticle of the proton) · de Antiproton (antiparticle of the proton) · tl labanmulasik (antiparticle of the proton) · ru антипрото́н (antiparticle of the proton) · cmn 反質子 /反质子 (antiparticle of the proton) · it antiprotone (antiparticle of the proton) · fi antiprotoni (antiparticle of the proton) · eu antiprotoi (antiparticle of the proton) · ca antiprotó (antiparticle of the proton)