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anyone | anyon |

As a pronoun anyone

is any person; anybody.

As a noun anyon is

any particle that obeys a continuum of quantum statistics, only two of which are the standard Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics.

anyone

English

Alternative forms

* any one

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)
  • Any person; anybody.
  • * (George Bernard Shaw)
    • The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=8 , passage= “[…] Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm straight, but this time I had six thousand quid at stake. […] I laid 'em long odds because it wasn't in the nature of things that Wynbolt could beat all of them champs. Then—then he smashed one after another, until I got windy—nervous as you might say. […]”}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}

    Synonyms

    * anybody

    Related terms

    * anybody * anywhere * anything * no one * everyone * someone

    anyon

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia anyon) (en noun)
  • (physics) Any particle that obeys a continuum of quantum statistics, only two of which are the standard Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics.
  • * 1995 Erik B Karlsson - Solid State Phenomena: As Seen by Muons, Protons, and Excited Nuclei
    • The anyon concept has been used to describe phenomena in connection with the fractional quantum Hall effect (FOHE).

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