| 单词 | biotron |
| 释义 | biotron in British English (ˈbaɪəʊˌtrɒn) noun a climate-control chamber used to examine how living organisms respond to specific climatic conditions biotron in American English (ˈbaiəˌtrɑn) noun Biology a controlled laboratory environment designed to provide uniform experimental conditions with the aim of producing uniform organisms for use in experiments Word origin [1970–75; bio- + -tron]This word is first recorded in the period 1970–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: New Age, consciousness-raising, cornrow, salsa, urban legendbio- is a combining form meaning “life” occurring in loanwords from Greek (biography). On this model, bio- is used in the formation of compound words (bioluminescence). Other words that use the affix bio- include: bioconversion, bioenergetics, biomechanics, bionic, biosynthesis; -tron is 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 inexperiments (biotron) |
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