antiproton

See also: antipróton

English

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) (fǎnzhìzǐ), 反质子 (zh) (fǎnzhízi)

• Finnish: antiprotoni (fi)
• French: antiproton (fr) m
• German: Antiproton (de) n
• Icelandic: andróteind f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: antiprotone (it) m
• Japanese: 反陽子 (han'yōshi)
• Polish: antyproton m
• Portuguese: antiprotão m (Portugal), antipróton m (Brazil)
• Romanian: antiproton (ro) m
• Russian: антипрото́н (ru) m (antiprotón)
• Spanish: antiprotón m
• Tagalog: labanmulasik

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti.pʁɔ.tɔ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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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.