Ξ
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Translingual
Symbol
Ξ
- (particle physics) Xi baryon; cascade particle
- 2017 August 20, Jon Butterworth, “Newly discovered particles, and what's in them”, in The Guardian[1] (in English):
- Those smaller particles are quarks in this case, meaning that the Ξcc++ is a hadron—the generic name for particles made of quarks.
Further reading
- Xi (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Phoenician 𐤎 (s, “śāmek”).
Letter
Ξ • (X) (uppercase, lowercase ξ)
- The letter xi (ξεῖ), the tenth letter of the ancient Greek alphabet.
Derived terms
See also
- (Greek-script letters) Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ ς, Τ τ, Υ υ, Φ φ, Χ χ, Ψ ψ, Ω ω
- (non-Classical letters) Ϝ (W) ϝ (w), Ͷ ͷ, Ͱ (H) ͱ (h), Ϻ (S) ϻ (s), Ϟ ϟ, Ϙ (Q) ϙ (q), Ͳ (S) ͳ (s)
- (punctuation) · ;
- (diacritics) ᾿ ῾ ◌́ ◌̀ ῀ ¨
Greek
Letter
Ξ • (X) (uppercase, lowercase ξ)
- The upper case letter xi (ξι), the 14th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.