nucleon

See also: nucléon, nucleón, and núcleon

English

Alternative forms

• nucleone (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *knuks

Latin nux

Latin nucleuslbor.

English nucleus

Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?

Latin carbōlbor.

French carbonebor.

English carbonbf.

English -on

English nucleon

From nucleus + -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)uːkliɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

nucleon (plural nucleons)

1. A proton (uud) or a neutron (udd).

Hypernyms

• baryon

Hyponyms

• nucleon resonance
  • Δ⁺ (uud*, proton delta resonance)
  • Δ⁰ (udd*, neutron delta resonance)

Derived terms

• antinucleon
• dinucleon
• internucleon
• multinucleon
• nucleonic
• nucleonics
• nucleon number
• polynucleon
• strangeon
• trinucleon

Related terms

• atom
• delta baryon
• hyperon
• nucleus
• parton
• quark

Translations

a proton or a neutron

• Armenian: նուկլոն (hy) (nuklon)
• Basque: nukleoi
• Breton: nukleon (br) m
• Bulgarian: нуклон m (nuklon)
• Catalan: nucleó (ca) m
• Chinese: 核子 (zh) (hézǐ)
• Czech: nukleon m
• Danish: nukleon c
• Finnish: nukleoni (fi), ydinhiukkanen
• French: nucléon (fr) m
• German: Nukleon (de) n
• Greek: νουκλεόνιο (el) n (noukleónio)
• Italian: nucleone (it) m
• Japanese: 核子 (ja) (かくし, kakushi)
• Khmer: នយស្តាណូ (neak yak sta no), នុយក្លេអុង (nuy kle ong)
• Korean: 핵자(核子) (haekja)
• Latvian: nukleons m
• Polish: nukleon (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian Portuguese: núcleon (pt) m

  European Portuguese: nucleão m

• Romanian: nucleon (ro) m
• Russian: нукло́н (ru) m (nuklón)
• Spanish: nucleón m
• Swedish: nukleon (sv) c
• Yiddish: נוקלעאָן m (nukleon)

Dutch

Etymology

From nucleus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈny.kleː.ɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: nu‧cle‧on

Noun

nucleon n (plural nucleonen, no diminutive)

1. nucleon

Derived terms

• valentienucleon

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French nucléon.

Noun

nucleon m (plural nucleoni)

1. nucleon

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	nucleon	nucleonul	nucleoni	nucleonii
genitive-dative	nucleon	nucleonului	nucleoni	nucleonilor
vocative	nucleonule		nucleonilor

Venetan

Noun

nucleon m (plural nucleuni)

1. (physics) nucleon