English Explanatory Dictionary

parton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the constituent particles making up a compound particle, e.g. the quarks and gluons which make up hadrons.
name
  1. A placename:
  2. A village and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref NX9820).
  3. A hamlet in Thursby parish, Cumberland, Cumbria, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY2750).
  4. A hamlet (also called Great Parton) in Eardisley parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3148).
  5. A hamlet in Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX6970).
  6. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

parton partons

Etymology

Coined by American physicist Richard Feynman in 1969, from part + -on.

Derived words

antiparton multiparton partonic quasiparton
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