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-tron
- 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/ ٰɒ /
noun
- a public weighing machine
- the place where a tron is set up; marketplace
-tron
2suffix forming nouns
- indicating a vacuum tube
magnetron
- indicating an instrument for accelerating atomic or subatomic particles
synchrotron
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of -tron1
C15: from Old French trone , from Latin trutina , from Greek ٰܳٲŧ balance, set of scales
Origin of -tron2
from Greek, suffix indicating instrument
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