QUARKONIUM


Meaning of QUARKONIUM in English

/kwawr koh"nee euhm, kwahr-/ , n. Physics.

a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.

[ 1975-80; QUARK + -ON 1 + -IUM, on the model of POSITRONIUM and similarly named particles ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .