fundamental particle

American  

noun

1. elementary particle.

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fundamental particle British  

noun

1. another name for elementary particle

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fundamental particle Scientific  

1. See elementary particle

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Etymology

Origin of fundamental particle

First recorded in 1930–35

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Example Sentences

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fundamental particle

The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle associated with the mechanism that gives many elementary particles their mass.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

Physicists had learned that every fundamental particle seems to have an antimatter counterpart, an idea Segrè would later earn a Nobel Prize for verifying.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023

Physicists know that for every fundamental particle in nature there is an antiparticle — an evil twin of identical mass but endowed with equal and opposite characteristics like charge and spin.

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

So Pauli proposed what he described as a “desperate remedy”: a new type of small, chargeless fundamental particle that was emitted alongside the electrons and accounted for the missing energy.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 15, 2022

The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass than scientists thought.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022

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