Fermion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A particle, such as an electron, proton, or neutron, having half-integral spin and obeying statistical rules requiring that not more than one in a set of identical particles may occupy a particular quantum state.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states, which means it must obey the Pauli exclusion principle and Fermi-Dirac statistics. They have half-integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, most derived from quarks. Compare boson.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistcs and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Hyponym
    lepton    heavy particle    baryon   
    Form
    fermionic   
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