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Gaon vs Kaon - What's the difference?

gaon | kaon |

As nouns the difference between gaon and kaon

is that gaon is (medieval) an honorific for the head of a jewish academy while kaon is kaon.

gaon

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Honorary title for a Jewish scholar who is noted for his wisdom and knowledge of the Talmud.
  • In modern usage, a genius.

    • Quotations

    * 1991, Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=5mR5jX70oqwC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&sig=efbu3LMM7kVUrIzfWghTlqOeIXQ] *: The Gaon' also was distressed by the veneration the Hasidim accorded their rabbinic leaders, men whom the ' Gaon generally regarded as ignoramuses. * 1996, Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht, To Rule Jerusalem [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=h27UQhGY9nwC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&sig=f-awfG-HhWgq48JD6okq8b_8Vp8] *: Like the hasidim, he too refused the title of rabbi, adopting the ancient title of Gaon. * 1997, Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=M0wUKoMJeccC&pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&sig=ffm2drYu_SPO-Cgn9eM32oW2rhM] *: The Gaon' also mentions a letter he has received from ?asan as-??q?l? (al-??q?la, the ancient Aramaic name for K?fa) undoubtedly one of the emigrants from Iraq to Egypt whom the ' Gaon knew.

    See also

    * iluy *

    Anagrams

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    kaon

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia kaon) (en noun)
  • (particle) any of four unstable subatomic particles, mesons, they are a combination of a strange quark or antiquark and either an up or down quark or antiquark
  • * K0: strange quark + down antiquark
  • * K0* (antiparticle of K0): down quark + strange antiquark
  • * K+: strange quark + up antiquark
  • * K- (antiparticle of K+): up quark + strange antiquark

    • Anagrams

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