electron

See also: Electron, electrón, électron, and eléctron

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English

Alternative forms

• electrion (dated)

Etymology

From electr(ic) + (i)on, originally proposed (by George J.Stoney 1891, changed from electrolion 1881) as the name for the electric charge associated with a univalent ion. Compare electro-, -on. The particle ("corpuscule") was discovered in 1896. The name electrion was proposed for the particle in 1906 but tailed because Hendrik Lorentz preferred electron.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɛktɹɒn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɛktɹɑn/

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Noun

electron (plural electrons)

1. (physics) The subatomic particle having a negative charge and orbiting the nucleus; the flow of electrons in a conductor constitutes electricity.
2. (chemistry, obsolete) Alloys of magnesium and other metals, like aluminum or zinc, that were manufactured by the German company Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron.

Synonyms

• (particle): negatron (obsolete)

Coordinate terms

• neutron
• proton
• positron

Derived terms

• antielectron
• coelectron
• cryo-electron microscopy
• cryo-transmission electron microscopy
• dielectron
• electrino
• electron affinity
• electronation
• electron capture
• electron capture detector ‎
• electron carrier
• electron cloud
• electron configuration
• electron cryomicroscopy
• electron density
• electron donor
• electron gun
• electron hole
• electronlike
• electron micrograph
• electron microscopy ‎
• electron neutrino
• electron number
• electron pair
• electron shell
• electron spin resonance
• electron transfer reaction
• electron tube ‎
• electron volt
• electron wave function
• free electron
• immunogold electron microscopy
• interelectron
• monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope
• multielectron
• photoelectron
• quasielectron
• scanning electron microscope
• scanning transmission electron microscope
• selectron
• surface-conduction electron-emitter display
• three-center two-electron bond
• transmission electron diffraction
• transmission electron microscope
• transmission electron microscopy
• unpaired electron
• valence electron

 

Related terms

• electronic
• electronics

Translations

the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms

• Afrikaans: elektron (af)
• Albanian: elektroni
• Arabic: إِلَكْتْرُون‎ m (ʾilaktrūn), كُهَيْرِب‎ (kuhayrib) (rare)
• Armenian: էլեկտրոն (hy) (ēlektron)
• Asturian: electrón m
• Basque: elektroi (eu)
• Belarusian: электрон m (elektrón)
• Bengali: ইলেকট্রন (bn) (ilekôṭrôn)
• Breton: elektron collective noun elektronenn sg f
• Bulgarian: електрон (bg) m (elektron)
• Catalan: electró (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子 (zh), 电子 (zh) (diànzǐ)

  Min Nan: 電子 (zh-min-nan) (tiān-chú)

• Czech: elektron (cs) m
• Danish: elektron (da) c
• Dutch: elektron (nl) n
• Esperanto: elektrono (eo)
• Estonian: elektron (et)
• Finnish: elektroni (fi)
• French: électron (fr) m
• Galician: electrón (gl)
• Georgian: ელექტრონი (elekṭroni)
• German: Elektron (de) n
• Greek: ηλεκτρόνιο (el) n (ilektrónio)
• Gujarati: વીજાણુ (gu) (vījāṇu)
• Hawaiian: huna ʻine
• Hebrew: אלקטרון‎ (he)
• Hindi: विद्युदणु (vidyudaṇu)
• Hungarian: elektron (hu)
• Icelandic: rafeind (is) f
• Ido: elektrono (io)
• Interlingua: electron
• Irish: leictreon m

• Italian: elettrone (it) m
• Japanese: 電子 (ja) (でんし, denshi)
• Kannada: ಋಣವಿದ್ಯುತ್ಕಣ (ruṇavidyutkaṇa)
• Khmer: អស្យាណូ (km) (’a’syaanou), អេឡិចត្រុង (km) (eelɨchtrong)
• Korean: 전자 (ko) (jeonja) (電子 (ko))
• Kurdish: kareva‎ (kareva)
• Latvian: elektrons m
• Lithuanian: elektronas
• Malay: elektron
• Maori: irahiko
• Norwegian: elektron (no)
• Persian: الکترون‎ (fa) (elektron)
• Polish: elektron (pl) m
• Portuguese: electrão (pt) m, (Brazil) elétron (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਬਿਜਲਾਣੂ (bijalāṇū)
• Quechua: iliktrun
• Romanian: electron (ro) m
• Russian: электро́н (ru) m (elektrón)
• Serbo-Croatian: elektron (sh) m
• Slovak: elektrón (sk)
• Slovene: elektron (sl)
• Spanish: electrón (es) m
• Swedish: elektron (sv) c
• Tagalog: dagisik
• Tamil: எதிர்மின்னி (ta) (etirmiṉṉi)
• Thai: อิเล็กตรอน (th) (ì-lék-dtrɔn)
• Tibetan: གློག་རྡུལ (glog rdul)
• Turkish: elektron (tr)
• Ukrainian: електрон m (elektrón)
• Vietnamese: điện tử (vi) (電子)
• Wolof: mbëjfepp
• Yiddish: עלעקטראָן‎ m (elektron)
• Yoruba: atanná

an alloy

• Japanese: エレクトロン (erekutoron), マグネシウム合金 (maguneshiumu gōkin)

• Polish: elektron (pl) m

Anagrams

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Interlingua

Noun

electron (plural electrones)

1. electron

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Romanian

Noun

electron m (plural electroni)

1. electron

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From French électron

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ lɛk̚˧˦ t͡ɕəwŋ͡m˧˧], [ʔe˧˧ lɛk̚˧˦ t͡ɕəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ lɛk̚˦˧˥ ʈəwŋ͡m˧˧], [ʔej˧˧ lɛk̚˦˧˥ ʈəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ lɛk̚˦˥ ʈəwŋ͡m˧˧], [ʔej˧˧ lɛk̚˦˥ ʈəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• Phonetic: e léc trông, ê léc trông

Noun

electron

1. an electron