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Noun:

  • A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BCE. The lowest value coin ever in circulation. Considered by some to be the widow's mite.
  • particles An elementary particle with a spin of 1/2 (a fermion) which is immune to the strong nuclear force (including the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon).

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