FERMION

fermion

(noun) any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

fermion (plural fermions)

(particle physics, Standard Model) Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermiā€“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;
(slightly more loosely) any such particle or any composite particle composed of fermions.

Coordinate terms

• boson (particle with integer spin)

Source: Wiktionary



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