muon

What does muon mean?

muon means "an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino".

How many syllables are in muon?

muon has 2 syllables and divides as mu-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for muon?

Close synonyms include negative muon, mu-meson. 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 muon a common word?

muon 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for muon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.