Definitions for leptons

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leptons lep·ton

Spelling: [lep-ton]

IPA: /ˈlɛp tɒn/

Leptons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 240 anagrams from letters in leptons (elnopst).

Definitions for leptons

noun

1. an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
2. a small copper or bronze coin of ancient Greece.
3. any of a class of particles with spin of ½ 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, the muon and mu-neutrino, and the tau lepton and tau-neutrino.

Origin of leptons

1715-25; Greek leptón (nómisma) a small (coin), noun use of neuter of leptós small; see lepto-

Examples for leptons

lepton, lep′ton, n. the smallest of modern Greek coins, 100 to the drachma.

A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion.

The game was thus played in 1810, and is so still, both here and at lepton.

The smallest copper coin in use among the Jews, the lepton, called in Hebrew chalcous, "copper money."