ALL meanings of lepton
lep·ton
L l - noun lepton physics: type of particle 1
- noun plural lepton an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma. 1
- noun plural lepton a small copper or bronze coin of ancient Greece. 1
- noun lepton any of a class of particles with spin of ½ that are not subject to the strong force and that are believed to be truly elementary and not composed of quarks or other subunits. The leptons known or believed to exist are the electron and electron-neutrino, the muon and mu-neutrino, and the tau lepton and tau-neutrino. 1
- noun lepton A monetary unit of Greece until the introduction of the euro, worth one hundredth of a drachma (used only in calculations). 1
- noun lepton a former Greek monetary unit worth one hundredth of a drachma 0
- noun lepton a small coin of ancient Greece 0
- noun lepton any of a group of elementary particles and their antiparticles, such as an electron, muon, or neutrino, that participate in electromagnetic and weak interactions and have a half-integral spin 0
- noun lepton a former monetary unit of modern Greece, equal to 1⁄100 of a drachma 0
- noun lepton any of a class of fermions subject to the weak interaction but not the strong interaction, as the electron, neutrino, muon, or tau particle 0
- noun lepton A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BC, considered by some to be the widow's mite. 0
- noun lepton An elementary particle with a spin of 1/2 (a fermion) which is immune to the strong nuclear force (including the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon). 0