| 释义 |
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-tron, - Electronicsa 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).
- by initial shortening of electron, with perh. accidental allusion to the Greek instrumental suffix -tron, as in árotron plough
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -tron suffix forming nouns - indicating a vacuum tube: magnetron
- indicating an instrument for accelerating atomic or subatomic particles: synchrotron
Etymology: from Greek, suffix indicating instrument |