Associations to the word «Pion»

Wiktionary

PION, noun. (particle) Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.

Dictionary definition

PION, noun. A meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats