tachyon

See also Tachyon

English

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Noun

tachyon (plural tachyons)

1. (physics) A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
2. (physics) A flaw in a physical theory that predicts the existence of tachyons or similar paradoxical results. Compare with ghost.

Derived terms

• tachyonic

See also

• tardyon
• luxon

Translations

Translations

• Albanian: takion (sq) m
• Arabic: تكيون (ar) m
• Bengali: ট্যাকিয়ন (bn)
• Estonian: tahhüon (et)
• Finnish: takioni (fi)
• French: tachyon (fr) m
• German: Tachyon (de) n
• Greek: τάχυον (el) (táchyon) n
• Hebrew: טכיון (he) m
• Icelandic: hraðeind (is) f
• Italian: tachione (it) m
• Japanese: タキオン (takion)
• Khmer: សីឃាណូ (km) (sey khea no)
• Lithuanian: tachionas (lt) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: takyon (nb) n

  Nynorsk: takyon (nn) n

• Persian: تاکیون (fa)
• Polish: tachion m
• Portuguese: táquion (pt) m, taquião (pt) m
• Romanian: tahion (ro)
• Russian: тахион (taχión) m
• Serbo-Croatian: takion (sh)
• Slovak: tachyón (sk)
• Slovene: tahion (sl)
• Spanish: taquión (es) m
• Swedish: takyon (sv) c
• Thai: แทคีออน (th)
• Turkish: takyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: тахіон (uk) (taxión)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ta.kjɔ̃/, X-SAMPA: /ta.kjO~/

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Noun

tachyon m (plural tachyons)

1. (physics) tachyon

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