Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lepton

2 senses of lepton

Sense 1
lepton -- (100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece)
       => Greek monetary unit -- (monetary unit in Greece)

Sense 2
lepton -- (an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0)
       => elementary particle, fundamental particle -- ((physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter)
       => fermion -- (any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle)