-tron
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Vacuum tube:
表示“真空管”：
dynatron.
三极管 - Device for manipulating subatomic particles:
表示“操纵亚原子粒子的装置”：
betatron.
电子感应加速器
语源
- Greek [instrumental noun suff]
希腊语 [工具格的名词性前缀]
-tron
suffix forming nouns
indicating a vacuum tube
⇒
magnetron
indicating an instrument for accelerating atomic or subatomic particles
⇒
synchrotron
Origin
from Greek, suffix indicating instrument-tron
Word Origin
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).
Origin
by initial shortening of electron, with perhaps accidental allusion to the Gk instrumental suffix -tron, as in árotron plough
Related Words
- apastron
- betatron
- bevatron
- biotron
- calutron
- cosmotron
-trona word element used in the names of various electronic devices.
[extracted from electronic]-tron
noun suffix
magnetron
2. device for the manipulation of subatomic particles
cyclotron
noun suffix
ETYMOLOGY Greek, suffix denoting an instrument; akin to Old English -thor, suffix denoting an instrument, Latin -trum
1. vacuum tubemagnetron
2. device for the manipulation of subatomic particles
cyclotron
-tron
suffix
Physics 【物理】
1.
- denoting a subatomic particle表示“亚原子粒子”：
-
positron.
2.
- denoting a particle accelerator表示“粒子加速器”：
-
cyclotron.
3.
- denoting a thermionic valve表示“热电子真空管”：
-
ignitron.
词源
from （elec） tron.
1939 Nature 8 Apr. 602/1 -tron should be restricted to signify either an instrument or a particle, but not both{ddd}-on taken by itself..seems the most natural ending for a particle.
1949 Ibid. 13 Aug. 263/2The Amsterdam conference attempted to dispose of the curious modern theory that the ancient Greek termination for a fundamental particle was ‘-tron’. It blessed the word ‘meson’ as against its rivals. [ of the International Union of Physics]
-tron
word-forming element in compounds coined in physics, "having to do with electrons or subatomic particles," 1939, abstracted unetymologically from electron (Greek -tron was an instrumentive suffix).
ORIGIN: The ending of electron noun Greek -tron instr. suffix).
☞ tron
-tron
\.ˌträn\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: Greek, suffix denoting an instrument (as Greek arotron plow, from stem of aroun to plow); akin to Old English -thor, suffix denoting an instrument, Old Norse -thr, Latin -trum, Middle Irish -thar, Sanskrit -tra
1. : vacuum tube
< magnetron >
2. : device for the manipulation of subatomic particles
< cyclotron >
< isotron >
1.
< magnetron >
2.
< cyclotron >
< isotron >
-tron
Suffix
- Used to name various electronic devices
- Used to name a number of elementary particles
- Used to name a number of particle accelerators
- Used to name a number of machine learning algorithms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron), a suffix denoting an instrument, used to name the electron.