maon

From Mao (referring to Mao Zedong) + -on, coined in 1977 by American theoretical physicist Sheldon L. Glashow in remembrance of Mao, who firmly holds that matter is endlessly divisible.

maon (plural maons)

1. (physics, historical) A general term for any hypothetical particle of which a quark or lepton is consisted; a preon.

• quink, haplon, rishon, subquark, prequark

• Noam, Mona, mona, Mano, Oman, NOMA, Amon, noma, Onam, MONA, mano, moan

• moan (Southeast Limburgish)
  • Moën (Eupen)
  • Mooen (Krefeld)
• maond, moand (rare, Southeast Limburgish)
  • mond (Voeren)

From Middle Dutch mâne, from Old Dutch *māno, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

maon f or m (plural maone)

1. moon