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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
1suffix
indicating a vacuum tube
magnetron
indicating an instrument for accelerating atomic or subatomic particles
synchrotron
tron
2/ ٰɒ /
noun
a public weighing machine
the place where a tron is set up; marketplace
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of -tron1
Origin of -tron2
Example Sentences
Tron Elliott, who owns a nearby auto repair shop, said a neighbor grabbed him early Tuesday after noticing the ground was moving.
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.
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