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Eight′fold Way′, [Physics.]
  1. Physicsa scheme for classifying hadrons according to a symmetry principle based on strangeness and isotopic spin: a forerunner of the quark model.
  • 1925–30; so named because hadrons with low mass and spin form groups of eight; with jocular allusion to the Eightfold Way of Buddhism (see Eightfold Path)

'Eightfold Way' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
omega-minus particle

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