electron

See also: Electron, electrón, électron, and eléctron

English

Picture dictionary: atom

atom

electron

nucleus

proton

proton

neutron

neutron

Alternative forms

• electrion (dated)

Etymology

Blend of electric +‎ ion, coined by Anglo-Irish scientist George Stoney in 1891, changed by him multiple times from an earlier electrolion and original electrine (used as early as 1874) 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 curtailed because Hendrik Lorentz preferred electron.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɛk.tɹɒn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɛk.tɹɑn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

electron (plural electrons)

2. (physics) The subatomic particle having a negative charge and orbiting the nucleus; the flow of electrons in a conductor constitutes electricity.

   Synonyms: e (symbol); negatron (obsolete)

   Hypernyms: subatomic particle < particle

   Holonym: atom

   Comeronyms: proton, p, neutron, n; nucleon, baryon

   Coordinate terms: proton, p, neutron, n; nucleon, baryon; positron; holon, chargon, orbiton, spinon

3. (chemistry, obsolete) Alloys of magnesium and other metals, like aluminum or zinc, that were manufactured by the German company Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron^(de).

Derived terms

• antielectron
• Auger electron
• Auger electron spectroscopy
• coelectron
• cryoelectron
• cryo-electron microscopy
• cryo-transmission electron microscopy
• dielectron
• electride
• electrino
• electron affinity
• electronation
• electron avalanche
• electron beam
• electron capture
• electron capture detector
• electron carrier
• electron cloud
• electron configuration
• electron cryomicroscopy
• electron density
• electron donor
• electron gun
• electron hole
• electronize
• electronlike
• electron micrograph
• electron microscope
• electron microscopy
• electron neutrino
• electron number
• electronogram
• electron pair
• electron paramagnetic resonance
• electron shell
• electron spin resonance
• electron transfer reaction
• electron tube
• electron volt
• electron wave function
• free electron
• immunoelectron
• 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
• thermoelectron
• three-center two-electron bond
• transferred electron device
• 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: elektron (sq) m
• Arabic: إِلِكْتْرُون m (ʔiliktrūn), كُهَيْرِب (kuhayrib) (rare)
• Armenian: էլեկտրոն (hy) (ēlektron)
• Asturian: electrón m
• Azerbaijani: elektron (az)
• Basque: elektroi (eu)
• Belarusian: электро́н m (eljektrón)
• Bengali: ইলেকট্রন (bn) (ilekṭron)
• Breton: elektron (br) f pl (collective), elektronenn (br) f sg
• Bulgarian: електро́н (bg) m (elektrón)
• Burmese: အီလက်ထရွန် (my) (ilakhta.rwan)
• Catalan: electró (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電子 / 电子 (din⁶ zi²)

  Hokkien: 電子 / 电子 (zh-min-nan) (tiān-chú)

  Mandarin: 電子 / 电子 (zh) (diànzǐ)

• 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: אֶלֶקְטְרוֹן (he) m (elektrón)
• Hindi: विद्युदणु m (vidyudṇu), इलेक्ट्रॉन m (ilekṭrŏn)
• Hungarian: elektron (hu)
• Icelandic: rafeind (is) f
• Ido: elektrono (io)
• Indonesian: elektron (id)
• Interlingua: electron
• Irish: leictreon m
• Italian: elettrone (it) m
• Japanese: 電子 (ja) (でんし, denshi)
• Kannada: ಋಣವಿದ್ಯುತ್ಕಣ (ṛṇavidyutkaṇa)
• Kazakh: электрон (kk) (élektron)
• Khmer: អសន្យាណូ (ʼaʼsɑnyaanou), អេឡិចត្រុង (km) (ʼeeləctrong)
• Korean: 전자(電子) (ko) (jeonja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kareva

• Kyrgyz: электрон (ky) (elektron)
• Lao: ເອເລັກຕົງ (lo) (ʼē lek tong)
• Latvian: elektrons (lv) m
• Lithuanian: elektronas m
• Macedonian: електро́н m (elektrón)
• Malay: elektron (ms)
• Maori: irahiko
• Marathi: इलेक्ट्रॉन m (ilekṭrŏn)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: электрон (mn) (elektron)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: elektron (no) n

• Occitan: electron (oc) m
• Pashto: الکترون m (elektron)
• Persian: الکترون (fa) (elektron)
• Polish: elektron (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: elétron (pt) m

  European: eletrão (pt) m

• Punjabi: ਬਿਜਲਾਣੂ (bijlāṇū)
• Quechua: iliktrun
• Romanian: electron (ro) m
• Russian: электро́н (ru) m (elektrón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: елѐктро̄н m

  Roman: elèktrōn (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ඉලෙක්ට්‍රෝන (si) (ilekṭrōna)
• Slovak: elektrón (sk) m
• Slovene: elektron (sl) m
• Spanish: electrón (es) m, negatrón m
• Swedish: elektron (sv) c
• Tagalog: dagisik
• Tajik: электрон (elektron)
• Tamil: எதிர்மின்னி (ta) (etirmiṉṉi)
• Tatar: электрон (elektron)
• Thai: อิเล็กตรอน (th) (ì-lék-dtrɔn)
• Tibetan: གློག་རྡུལ (glog rdul)
• Turkish: elektron (tr)
• Turkmen: elektron
• Ukrainian: електро́н m (elektrón)
• Urdu: بَرْقِیَہ m (barqiyā), الیکٹران m (ilekṭrān)
• Uyghur: ئېلېكترون (ëlëktron)
• Uzbek: elektron (uz)
• Vietnamese: ê-léc-trông (vi), điện tử (vi) (obsolete)
• Wolof: mbëjfepp
• Yiddish: עלעקטראָן m (elektron)
• Yoruba: ẹ̀lẹ́kítírọ̀n

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

• El Centro

Interlingua

Noun

electron (plural electrones)

1. electron

Italian

Alternative forms

• elektron

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron). Doublet of elettro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈlɛk.tron/
• Rhymes: -ɛktron
• Hyphenation: e‧lèc‧tron

Noun

electron m (uncountable)

1. (metallurgy) electron (alloy)

Further reading

• electron in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Noun

electron m (plural electrons)

1. electron

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French électron.

Noun

electron m (plural electroni)

1. electron

Declension

Declension of electron

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	electron	electronul		electroni	electronii
genitive-dative	electron	electronului		electroni	electronilor
vocative	electronule			electronilor

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• e léc trông
• ê léc trông

Etymology

From French électron.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

electron

1. (physics) electron

   Synonym: điện tử