negative muon

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmuonmu-meson

   Broaderlepton

Questions about negative muon

What does negative muon mean?

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

What is another word for negative muon?

Close synonyms include 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 negative muon a common word?

negative 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.