MEANING
A hypothetical particle associated with faster-than-light motion in certain theoretical descriptions.
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- tachyon hypothesis
- tachyon signal
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The novel imagined a tachyon carrying the warning.
The physicist emphasized that the tachyon remained hypothetical.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular tachyon; plural tachyons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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