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omega-minus particle
[ oh-mee-guh-mahy-nuhs, -mey-, oh-meg-uh- ]
noun
, Physics.
- a baryon with strangeness −3, isotopic spin 0, and negative charge; predicted from the mathematics of the Eightfold Way and subsequently discovered. : Ω −
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Origin of omega-minus particle1
First recorded in 1960–65
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