UPSILON


Meaning of UPSILON in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈüp-sə-ˌlän, ˈyüp-, ˈəp-, -lən, Britain usually ]

yüp-ˈsī-lən noun

Etymology: Middle Greek y psilon, literally, simple y; from the desire to distinguish it from oi, which was pronounced the same in later Greek

Date: 1621

1. : the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet — see alphabet table

2. : any of a group of unstable electrically neutral elementary particles of the meson family that have a mass about 10 times that of a proton

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