"fermion" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfɜːmɪɒn/ Forms: fermions [plural]
Etymology: From Fermi + -on. Named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi. Coined by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1945 in a lecture titled "Developments in Atomic Theory". Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Fermi|on}} Fermi + -on, {{named-after/list|physicist||||}} physicist, {{!}} |, {{lang|en|Enrico Fermi}} Enrico Fermi, {{named-after|en|Enrico Fermi|nat=Italian-American|occ=physicist|wplink=Enrico Fermi}} Named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, {{coin|en|Paul Dirac|in=1945|nat=English|occ=physicist}} Coined by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1945 Head templates: {{en-noun}} fermion (plural fermions)
  1. (particle physics, Standard Model) Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark; Tags: particle Categories (topical): Particle physics, Fermions
    Sense id: en-fermion-en-noun-zQcWii5X Disambiguation of Fermions: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -on Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -on: 50 50 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
  2. (particle physics, Standard Model) Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark; Tags: particle Categories (topical): Particle physics, Fermions
    Sense id: en-fermion-en-noun-hVAcJPc3 Disambiguation of Fermions: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -on Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -on: 50 50 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fermion Hyponyms: baryon, lepton, quark Related terms: fermionic field Coordinate_terms: boson [particle], Fermi-Dirac statistics Translations (particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states): فرميون (Arabic), ֆերմիոն (fermion) (Armenian), fermioi (Basque), ফার্মিয়ন (pharmiẏon) (Bengali), férmion [masculine] (Brazilian Portuguese), fermió [masculine] (Catalan), 费米子 (fèimǐzǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), fermion [masculine] (Czech), fermion [common-gender] (Danish), fermion [neuter] (Dutch), fermiono (Esperanto), fermião [masculine] (European Portuguese), fermioni (Finnish), fermion [masculine] (French), Fermion [neuter] (German), fermion (Hungarian), fermiono (Ido), fermione [masculine] (Italian), フェルミ粒子 (ferumi ryūshi) (Japanese), フェルミオン (ferumion) (Japanese), ផ្វឺរមីយាណូ (fɨɨmiiyion) (Khmer), fermion [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), fermion [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), فرمیون (fermiyon) (Persian), fermion [masculine] (Polish), фермио́н (fermión) [masculine] (Russian), фермион [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), fermion [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), fermion [masculine] (Slovene), fermión [masculine] (Spanish), fermion (Swedish), fermiyon (Turkish)
Derived forms: antifermion, cofermion, difermion, Dirac fermion, fermionic, fermionically, fermionization, fermionize, fermiophobic, heavy fermion, Majorana fermion, multifermion, parafermion, pseudofermion, sfermion, superfermion, technifermion, Weyl fermion Disambiguation of 'particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states': 50 50

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      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "particle with totally antisymmetric composite quantum states",
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "Fermion"
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      "word": "ផ្វឺរមីយាណូ"
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      "code": "fa",
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