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"sense": "an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mion"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family",
"tags": [
"Portugal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "muão"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"masculine"
],
"word": "múon"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mjuón",
"sense": "an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мюо́н"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "muon"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "myon"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family",
"word": "mu tungapik"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family",
"word": "มิวออน"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family",
"word": "muon"
}
],
"word": "muon"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "muon",
"name": "eo-head"
}
],
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Esperanto entries with incorrect language header",
"Esperanto non-lemma forms",
"Esperanto noun forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "muo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"accusative singular of muo"
],
"links": [
[
"muo",
"muo#Esperanto"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"form-of",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "muon"
}
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