electron volt

See also: electronvolt, électronvolt, and électron-volt

English

Alternative forms

• electronvolt

Noun

electron volt (plural electron volts) (abbreviated eV)

1. (physics) A unit for measuring the energy of subatomic particles; the energy equal to that attained by an electron moving through a potential difference of one volt. Equivalent to 1.6022 x 10^-19 joules.
   • 2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane, page 158n:

     To get a feel for the size, the energy required to completely liberate an electron from the ground state of a hydrogen atom is 13.6 electron volts.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• gigaelectronvolt, GeV, BeV
• kiloelectronvolt, KeV
• megaelectronvolt, MeV
• millielectronvolt, meV
• teraelectronvolt, TeV

Translations

a unit for measuring the energy of subatomic particles

• Azerbaijani: elektron volt
• Bashkir: электронвольт (elektronvolʹt)
• Bengali: ইলেক্ট্রন-ভোল্ট (ilekṭron-bhōlṭo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子伏特／电子伏特 (zh) (diànzǐ fútè), 電子伏／电子伏 (zh) (diànzǐfú)

• Czech: elektronvolt m
• Danish: elektronvolt
• Dutch: elektronvolt (nl) m
• Finnish: elektronivoltti (fi)
• French: électronvolt (fr) m, électron-volt (fr) m
• Georgian: ელექტრონვოლტი (elekṭronvolṭi)
• German: Elektronenvolt (de) n, Elektronvolt (de) n
• Hungarian: elektronvolt (hu)
• Indonesian: elektronvolt
• Italian: elettronvolt (it) m
• Japanese: 電子ボルト (ja) (denshi boruto)
• Kazakh: электронвольт (élektronvolt)
• Korean: 전자볼트 (jeonjabolteu)
• Kyrgyz: электронвольт (elektronvolt)
• Latin: electronvoltium n
• Persian: الکترون‌ولت
• Polish: elektronowolt (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: elétron-volt (pt) m

  European: eletrão-volt (pt) m

• Romanian: electronvolt m
• Russian: электро́н-во́льт (ru) m (elektrón-vólʹt), электронвольт (ru) m (elektronvolʹt)
• Spanish: electronvoltio (es) m
• Swedish: elektronvolt (sv) c
• Tamil: இலத்திரன்வோல்ட் (ilattiraṉvōlṭ)
• Thai: อิเล็กตรอนโวลต์
• Tibetan: གློག་རྡུལ་ཝོལ། (glog rdul wol)
• Uzbek: elektronvolt