muon

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsnegative muonmu-meson

   Broaderlepton

Other forms of muon

plural

muons·

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 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: mu-on. The stress falls on "mu".

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.