CP invariance
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CP invariance
[¦sē¦pē in′ver·ē·əns] (particle physics)
The principle that the laws of physics are left unchanged by a combination of the operations of charge conjugation C and space inversion P; a small violation of this principle has been observed in the decay of neutral K- mesons.
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