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

Example Sentences

The study also provided new upper limits on the mass of neutrinos, the only fundamental particles whose masses have not yet been precisely measured.

From Science Daily

So far, they’ve been able to do that only for unrealistic black holes using speculative string theory—which assumes every fundamental particle is a tiny string or multidimensional “brane.”

From Science Magazine

By creating them and watching them decay, they have pieced together a theory of fundamental particles and forces called the standard model.

From Science Magazine

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

Science does deal with things that can’t be observed, such as fundamental particles, quantum wave functions, maybe even other universes.

From Scientific American