Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

axion

Syllabification: (ax·i·on)
Pronunciation: /ˈaksēˌän/

Definition of axion

noun

Physics
  • a hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to account for the rarity of processes that break charge-parity symmetry. It is very light, electrically neutral, and pseudoscalar.

Origin:

1970s: from axial + -on

axion in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of axion in the British & World English dictionary