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meshuganon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
meshuganon
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hypothetical particle that could explain cold fusion.

Etymology

From meshugge + -on, from Yiddish משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”). Coined by Hungarian-American physicist Edward Teller in 1989 during a Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)-National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

meshuganons (plural) meshugatron (alternative)

Questions

What does meshuganon mean?
A hypothetical particle that could explain cold fusion.
Where does meshuganon come from?
It is traced to Yiddish.

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