Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

majoron

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ma-joron
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hypothetical Goldstone boson.

Etymology

Named after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana + -on. Coined by Y. Chikashige, Rabindra Nath Mohapatra, and Roberto Peccei in 1980.

Inflected Forms

majorons (plural)

Derived Forms

majorino majoronic

Questions

What does majoron mean?: A hypothetical Goldstone boson.
Where does majoron come from?: Named after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana + -on. Coined by Y. Chikashige, Rabindra Nath Mohapatra, and Roberto Peccei in 1980.

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