elementary education | education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school |
accelerator particle accelerator atom smasher | a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles |
fiberboard fibreboard particle board | wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets |
particle detector | a chamber in which particles can be made visible |
duality wave-particle duality | (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory |
elementary geometry parabolic geometry Euclidean geometry | (mathematics) geometry based on Euclid's axioms |
particle physics high-energy physics high energy physics | the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions |
particle | a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs |
grade school grammar school elementary school primary school | a school for young children, usually the first or grades |
alpha particle | a positively charged particle that is the nucleus of the helium atom, emitted from natural or radioactive isotopes |
antimuon positive muon | the antiparticle of a muon, decays to positron and neutrino and antineutrino |
antitauon tau-plus particle | an antilepton of very great mass |
baryon heavy particle | 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 |
beta particle | a high-speed electron or positron emitted in the decay of a radioactive isotope |
elementary particle fundamental particle | (physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom, regarded as constituents of all matter |
J particle psi particle | a neutral meson with a large mass |
kaon kappa-meson k-meson K particle | an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision |
lambda particle lambda hyperon | an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin |
muon negative muon mu-meson | an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of microsecond, decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino |
particle subatomic particle | a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions |
strange particle | an elementary particle with non-zero strangeness |
tauon tau-minus particle | a lepton of very great mass |
weakly interacting massive particle WIMP | a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation, postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe |
particle beam | a collimated flow of particles (atoms or electrons or molecules) |
small-particle pollution | air pollution caused by fine particles of soot (as from power plants or diesel engines) |
atom molecule particle corpuscle mote speck | (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything |
identification particle | a tiny particle of material that can be added to a product to indicate the source of manufacture |
elementary simple uncomplicated unproblematic | easy and not involved or complicated, an elementary problem in statistics, elementary, my dear Watson, a simple game, found an uncomplicated solution to the problem |
elementary elemental primary | of or being the essential or basic part, an elementary need for love and nurturing |
elementary | of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education, the elementary grades, elementary teachers |