| 释义 |
subˈnuclear, a. Physics.
[sub- 14.]
Smaller than or occurring in an atomic nucleus; relating to such particles or to phenomena involving them.
1964New Scientist 20 Feb. 458/1 The frontier of physics has lain, since the war, in the field of sub-nuclear particles. 1964M. Gowing Britain & Atomic Energy 1939–45 16 These two theories [of Schroedinger and Bohr]..form the basis of all modern atomic, nuclear, and sub-nuclear physics. 1969Times 5 Feb. 13/7 The classification is part of the conceptual order which physicists are trying to impose on the sub-nuclear particles. 1981C. H. L. Smith in J. H. Mulvey Nature of Matter iii. 61 In the 1930s..protons and neutrons were the only sub-nuclear particles known. |