Usually means: Counterpart particle, opposite quantum numbers.
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  1. antiparticle: Merriam-Webster
  2. antiparticle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antiparticle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antiparticle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antiparticle: Vocabulary.com
  6. antiparticle: Wordnik
  7. antiparticle: Wiktionary
  8. antiparticle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. antiparticle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. antiparticle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. antiparticle: Dictionary.com
  12. Antiparticle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. antiparticle: Rhymezone
  14. antiparticle: FreeDictionary.org
  15. antiparticle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. antiparticle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. antiparticle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. antiparticle: Merriam-Webster

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  1. antiparticle: Encyclopedia

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  2. antiparticle: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Antiparticle: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  (physics) A subatomic particle corresponding to another particle with the same mass, spin and mean lifetime but with charge, parity, strangeness and other quantum numbers flipped in sign; a particle that has a reversed world line to another.

Similar:
anti-particle, particle-antiparticle, antisparticle, antipartner, antiphoton, antimatter, antiproton, antilepton, antiatom, antiquark, more...

Opposite:
particle, matter

Types:
positron, antiproton, antineutron, antineutrino, positronium, more...

Adjectives:
own, corresponding, first, particle, distinct, associated, neutral, known, respective, outgoing, handed

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Similar:
anti-particle, particle-antiparticle, antisparticle, antipartner, antiphoton, antimatter, antiproton, antilepton, antiatom, antiquark, more...

Opposite:
particle, matter

Types:
positron, antiproton, antineutron, antineutrino, positronium, more...

Adjectives:
own, corresponding, first, particle, distinct, associated, neutral, known, respective, outgoing, handed



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