elementary particle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fundamental particle; any of the subatomic particles that do not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.
Example Sentences
- "The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier."
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Phrases
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