English Explanatory Dictionary

axion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to resolve certain symmetry problems concerning the strong nuclear force.

Word forms

axion axions

Etymology

Coined by American physicist Frank Wilczek in 1978 after Axion, a brand of laundry detergent, for its -on suffix and the notion that the new particle could "clean up" a problem in physics. Also with relation to the axial current.

Derived words

axionic axionlike axiverse axizilla saxion
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