neutrino
noun/nuˈtrinoʊ/
Frequency rank: #15,180 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a subatomic particle with no electric charge and very little mass, produced in nuclear reactions.
Example sentence
Scientists detected a single neutrino passing through the Earth during the experiment.
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