antiparticle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A subatomic particle corresponding to another particle with the same mass, spin and mean lifetime but with charge, parity, strangeness and other quantum numbers flipped in sign; a particle that has a reversed world line to another.

/ˈæntiˌpɑ(ɹ)tɪkəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-antiparticle.wav

antiparticle antiparticles anti-particle

From anti- + particle.

antimatter self-conjugate

particle-antiparticle

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