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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
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of -tron1
Origin of -tron2
Example Sentences
When they escape one day, he takes chase and finds a dead body, forcing him to confront his own grief, in Man's Best Friend at Tron, Glasgow, 19 June-12 July.
The three-day event, which concluded Friday, boasted memorabilia from films including “Ghostbusters,” “Batman Returns,” “Jurassic Park,” “Conan the Barbarian” and “Tron” as well as the TV shows “Star Trek: The Original Series,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Breaking Bad” and “Friends.”
Some of the crypto exchanges 2 in which these transactions have been conducted, according to watchdog groups and law enforcement, include major platforms like Tron, Binance, and the infamous, now-defunct drug marketplace Silk Road.
Even before Trump was sworn in, meanwhile, a Chinese American entrepreneur named Justin Sun—the founder of Tron 6, which operates a crypto-transaction platform and also issues its own tokens 7—announced that he’d bought $30 million of World Liberty Financial’s token and joined the company as an adviser.
The Tron platform, multiple reports have said, is also used frequently by criminal groups including, but not limited to, fentanyl manufacturers.
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