fundamental particle

noun

1. elementary particle.

fundamental particle

noun

1. another name for elementary particle

fundamental particle

1. See elementary particle

Word History and Origins

Origin of fundamental particle¹

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.

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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.”

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

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

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

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