Usually means: Helium nucleus, two protons, neutrons.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. alpha particle: Merriam-Webster
  2. alpha particle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alpha particle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alpha particle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alpha particle: Vocabulary.com
  6. alpha particle: Wordnik
  7. alpha particle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. alpha particle: Wiktionary
  9. alpha particle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. alpha particle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. alpha particle: Dictionary.com
  12. Alpha-particle, Alpha particle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. alpha particle: Rhymezone
  14. alpha particle: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. alpha particle: FreeDictionary.org
  16. alpha particle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. alpha particle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. alpha particle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  19. alpha particle: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alpha particle: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alpha particle: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. alpha particle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. alpha particle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Alpha particle, Particle, alpha: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. alpha particle: Medical dictionary
  5. Alpha particle, Particle, alpha: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Alpha Particle: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Alpha particle: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Nuclear Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alpha particle)

noun:  (physics) A doubly positively charged nucleus of a helium-4 atom (consisting of two protons and two neutrons), emitted as a consequence of radioactivity; α-particle

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