lepta
Multiple Entries:lepta lepton
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lepta/ˈlɛptə(r)/
plural form of lepton1.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lepton1 /ˈlɛptɒn/
▶noun (pl. lepta) a former monetary unit of Greece used only in calculations, worth one hundredth of a drachma.
– origin from Gk lepton, neut. of leptos ‘small’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lepton2 /ˈlɛptɒn/
▶noun Physics a subatomic particle that does not take part in the strong interaction, such as an electron, muon, or neutrino.
– derivatives
leptonic adjective.
leptonic adjective.
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