"alpha decay" meaning in English

See alpha decay in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: alpha decays [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} alpha decay (plural alpha decays)
  1. (physics) Radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle. Categories (topical): Helium, Physics, Radioactivity Translations (radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle): 阿爾法衰變 (Chinese Mandarin), 阿尔法衰变 (ā'ěrfǎ shuāibiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), α衰變 (Chinese Mandarin), α衰变 (ā'ěrfā shuāibiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), alfalagunemine (Estonian), alfahajoaminen (Finnish), Alphazerfall [masculine] (German), alfasundrun [feminine] (Icelandic), alfahrörnun [feminine] (Icelandic), decaimento alfa [masculine] (Portuguese), alfasönderfall [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "alpha decays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "alpha decay (plural alpha decays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Estonian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Helium",
          "orig": "en:Helium",
          "parents": [
            "Noble gases",
            "Chemical elements",
            "Gases",
            "Matter",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Physics",
          "orig": "en:Physics",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Radioactivity",
          "orig": "en:Radioactivity",
          "parents": [
            "Nuclear physics",
            "Radiation",
            "Physics",
            "Quantum mechanics",
            "Energy",
            "Sciences",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle."
      ],
      "id": "en-alpha_decay-en-noun-tsPbhx0p",
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "Radioactive",
          "radioactive"
        ],
        [
          "decay",
          "decay"
        ],
        [
          "alpha particle",
          "alpha particle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics) Radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
          "word": "阿爾法衰變"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "ā'ěrfǎ shuāibiàn",
          "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
          "word": "阿尔法衰变"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
          "word": "α衰變"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "ā'ěrfā shuāibiàn",
          "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
          "word": "α衰变"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
          "word": "alfalagunemine"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
          "word": "alfahajoaminen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Alphazerfall"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "alfasundrun"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "alfahrörnun"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "decaimento alfa"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "alfasönderfall"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alpha decay"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "alpha decays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "alpha decay (plural alpha decays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "en:Helium",
        "en:Physics",
        "en:Radioactivity"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "Radioactive",
          "radioactive"
        ],
        [
          "decay",
          "decay"
        ],
        [
          "alpha particle",
          "alpha particle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics) Radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
      "word": "阿爾法衰變"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "ā'ěrfǎ shuāibiàn",
      "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
      "word": "阿尔法衰变"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
      "word": "α衰變"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "ā'ěrfā shuāibiàn",
      "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
      "word": "α衰变"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
      "word": "alfalagunemine"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
      "word": "alfahajoaminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Alphazerfall"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alfasundrun"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alfahrörnun"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "decaimento alfa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "alfasönderfall"
    }
  ],
  "word": "alpha decay"
}

Download raw JSONL data for alpha decay meaning in English (2.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.