antiproton

See also: antipróton

English

Alternative forms

• anti-proton

Etymology

anti- +‎ proton

Noun

antiproton (plural antiprotons)

1. (physics) The antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge.
   • 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 146:

     There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.

Synonyms

• pbar (symbolic)

Translations

antiparticle of the proton

• Basque: antiprotoi
• Catalan: antiprotó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反質子／反质子 (zh) (fǎnzhízi)

• Finnish: antiprotoni (fi)
• French: antiproton (fr) m
• German: Antiproton (de) n
• Icelandic: andróteind f
• Italian: antiprotone (it) m
• Japanese: 反陽子 (han'yōshi)
• Polish: antyproton (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: antipróton m

  European: antiprotão m

• Romanian: antiproton (ro) m
• Russian: антипрото́н (ru) m (antiprotón)
• Spanish: antiprotón m
• Tagalog: labanmulasik

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti.pʁɔ.tɔ̃/

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Noun

antiproton m (plural antiprotons)

1. (physics) antiproton

Further reading

• “antiproton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French antiproton.

Noun

antiproton m (plural antiprotoni)

1. antiproton

Declension

Declension of antiproton

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) antiproton	antiprotonul	(niște) antiprotoni	antiprotonii
genitive/dative	(unui) antiproton	antiprotonului	(unor) antiprotoni	antiprotonilor
vocative	antiprotonule		antiprotonilor