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-tron

  1. a combining form extracted from electron, used with nouns or combining forms, principally in the names of electron tubes ( ignitron; klystron; magnetron ) and of devices for accelerating subatomic particles ( cosmotron; cyclotron ); also, more generally, in the names of any kind of chamber or apparatus used in experiments ( biotron ).


tron

1

/ 迟谤蓲苍 /

noun

  1. a public weighing machine
  2. the place where a tron is set up; marketplace
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

-tron

2

suffix forming nouns

  1. indicating a vacuum tube

    magnetron

  2. indicating an instrument for accelerating atomic or subatomic particles

    synchrotron

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of -tron1

By initial shortening of electron, with perhaps accidental allusion to the Greek instrumental suffix -tron, as in 谩谤辞迟谤辞苍 鈥减濒辞耻驳丑鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of -tron1

C15: from Old French trone , from Latin trutina , from Greek 迟谤耻迟补苍脓 balance, set of scales

Origin of -tron2

from Greek, suffix indicating instrument

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