单词 | upsilon |
释义 | upsilon/ʌpˈsʌɪlən / /juːpˈsʌɪlən/ /ˈʊpsɪlɒn / /ˈjuːpsɪlɒn/noun 1The twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ), transliterated as ‘u’ or (chiefly in English words derived through Latin) as ‘y’.Typesetters typically confuse Greek letters in setting Greek quotations: nu with upsilon, theta with phi....
1.1 (Upsilon) [followed by Latin genitive] Astronomy The twentieth star in a constellation: Upsilon Scorpii...
1.2 (also upsilon particle) Physics A meson thought to contain a b quark bound to its antiparticle, produced in particle accelerators.Use of the tracking information told the energies and momenta of the muons - which could then be traced back to find the new upsilon particle and its mass....
OriginGreek, literally 'slender U', from psilos 'slender', referring to the need to distinguish upsilon from the diphthong oi: in late Greek the two had the same pronunciation. Rhymes |
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