Meaning Of The Word Lepton

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lepton in American English 1
a small coin of ancient Greece
noun: a monetary unit of Greece, the 100th part of a drachma

lepton in American English 2
any of a class of fermions subject to the weak interaction but not the strong interaction, as the electron, neutrino, muon, or tau particle
noun: any of a class of particles with spin of 1⁄2 that are not subject to the strong force and that are believed to be truly elementary and not composed of quarks or other subunits. The leptons known or believed to exist are the electron and electron-neutrino,

lepton in British English 1
noun: a former Greek monetary unit worth one hundredth of a drachma

lepton in British English 2
noun: any of a group of elementary particles and their antiparticles, such as an electron, muon, or neutrino, that participate in electromagnetic and weak interactions and have a half-integral spin

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