nucleon
English Thesaurus
1. a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus (noun.object)
| hypernym | : | baryon, heavy particle, |
| definition | : | any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1 (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | antineutron, |
| definition | : | the antiparticle of a neutron (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | antiproton, |
| definition | : | an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of a proton (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | neutron, |
| definition | : | an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | proton, |
| definition | : | a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | nucleus, |
| definition | : | the positively charged dense center of an atom (noun.object) |
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