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-tron

  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 ).



-tron

1

suffix

  1. indicating a vacuum tube

    magnetron

  2. indicating an instrument for accelerating atomic or subatomic particles

    synchrotron

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

tron

2

/ ٰɒ /

noun

  1. a public weighing machine

  2. the place where a tron is set up; marketplace

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -tron1

By initial shortening of electron, with perhaps accidental allusion to the Greek instrumental suffix -tron, as in ádzٰDz ‼dzܲ”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -tron1

from Greek, suffix indicating instrument

Origin of -tron2

C15: from Old French trone , from Latin trutina , from Greek ٰܳٲŧ balance, set of scales
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Example Sentences

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Tron Elliott, who owns a nearby auto repair shop, said a neighbor grabbed him early Tuesday after noticing the ground was moving.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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