elementary particle
noun1
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A fundamental particle; any of the subatomic particles that do not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.
- The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.2012 March 23, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
- Synonyms
- elementary particle, fundamental particle
- Related terms
- :Category:Elementary particles
- Hypernyms
- subatomic particle
- Hyponyms
- lepton, quark, gauge boson
- Holonyms
- atom