omega-minus particle

omega-minus particle
/oh mee"geuh muy"neuhs, -may"-, oh meg"euh-/, Physics.
a baryon with strangeness -3, isotopic spin 0, and negative charge; predicted from the mathematics of the Eightfold Way and subsequently discovered.
[1960-65]

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