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pion

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Definitions of pion
  1. noun
    a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision
    synonyms: pi-meson
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    type of:
    meson, mesotron
    an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0
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