-tron (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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  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).
noun
  1. a public weighing machine
  2. the place where a tron is set up; marketplace
suffix forming nouns
  1. indicating a vacuum tube
  2. indicating an instrument for accelerating atomic or subatomic particles
-tron (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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