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"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"
}
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