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

1 sense of meson

Sense 1
meson, mesotron -- (an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0)
       => hadron -- (any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles)
       => boson -- (any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons)