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-tron

-tron suffix: used to name various electronic and neutronic devices.

Suffix

-tron (noun-forming suffix, plural -trons)

  1. Used to name various electronic and neutronic devices.
  2. Used to name a number of subatomic particles.
  3. Used to name a number of particle accelerators.
  4. Used to name a number of machine learning algorithms.

Forms of -tron

plural-trons

Origin of -tron

Borrowed from Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron), a suffix denoting an instrument, as in Ancient Greek ἄροτρον (árotron, “plow”). The word cyclotron in particular has served as a motivation for use in high-technology terms. Compare also electron (and electronic), which is unrelated to the -τρον suffix.

Questions about -tron

What does -tron mean?
-tron means used to name various electronic and neutronic devices.
What part of speech is -tron?
-tron is a suffix.

Words near -tron in the dictionary

  1. -trigine
  2. -tripsy
  3. -trix
  4. -trixes
  5. -troch
  6. -tron
  7. -tronics
  8. -trons
  9. -trop-
  10. -trope
  11. -troph

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -tron (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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