meson

Other forms of meson

plural

mesons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meson

What does meson mean?

meson means "an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0".

How many syllables are in meson?

meson has 2 syllables: me-son. The stress falls on "me". In IPA it is /ˈmeɪˌzɑn/.

What is another word for meson?

Close synonyms include mesotron. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meson a common word?

meson is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with meson?

5 words rhyme with meson. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.