electronic
UK/ˌɛl.ɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪk//ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/
electronic adjective: of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
Adjective
electronic (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
- Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.
- electronic timer
- Generated or transmitted by an electronic device.
- electronic music
- Of or pertaining to digital or computer technology.
- Denoting a method analogous to the named non-electronic object or practice
- electronic mail
- electronic signature
- Of or pertaining to the Internet.
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
Noun
electronic (plural electronics)
- A device which runs on electricity.
electronic meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
electronic in Tamil
- இலத்திரனுக்குரிய, மின்னணுவியல்
electronic in Bengali
- বৈদ্যুতিন
electronic in Malayalam
- ഇലക്ട്രോണിക്സുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടത്
electronic in Kannada
- ಮಿನ್ನಿನ, ಮಿನ್ನು, ಮಿನ್
More languagesFewer languages
- electronic in Sanskrit
- वैद्युतक vaidyutaka
- electronic in Tagalog
- dagisikin
- electronic in Arabic
- إِلِكْتْرُونِي ʔiliktrōniyy, إِلِكْتْرُونِيّ ʔelektrōniyy
- electronic in Indonesian
- elektronik
- electronic in Persian
- الکترونی elekteroni
Examples of electronic in a sentence
- An abacus is of little value when you have an electronic calculator.
- Electronic devices are liable to malfunction when exposed to extreme heat.
- The company gave us a sneak look at their new electronic devices.
Forms of electronic
| plural | electronics |
|---|
Origin of electronic
From electron + -ic.
Words formed from electronic
- acoustoelectronic
- bioelectronic
- bionic
- cryoelectronic
- cybertronic
- dielectronic
- digitron
- electronically
- electronic babysitter
- electronic benefit transfer
- electronic body music
- electronic book
- electronic brain
- electronic calculator
- electronic car key
- electronic cigar
- electronic cigarette
- electronic circuit
- electronic collar
- electronic commerce
- electronic communication
- electronic computer
- electronic cottage
- electronic dance music
- electronic data interchange
- electronic document
- electronic flight bag
- electronic fog
- electronic game
- electronic intelligence
- electronicist
- electronic keyboard
- electronicky
- electronic mail
- electronic media
- electronic music
- electronic organ
- electronic paper
- electronic picking
- electronic publishing
- electronic resource
- electronic rock
- electronic sackbut
- electronic signature
- electronic smog
- electronic sport
- electronic stability control
- electronic superhighway
- electronification
- electronified
- electronify
- ELINT
- emotronic
- heatronic
- immunoelectronic
- interelectronic
- isoelectronic
- magnetoelectronic
- microelectronic
- monoelectronic
Phrases with electronic
- electronic fogs
- electronic books
- electronic games
- electronic mails
- electronic brains
- electronic cigars
- electronic medias
- electronic musics
- electronic organs
- electronic sports
- electronic collars
- electronic car keys
13 more phrasesFewer phrases
- electronic circuits
- electronic cottages
- electronic sackbuts
- electronic computers
- electronic documents
- electronic keyboards
- electronic resources
- electronic cigarettes
- electronic signatures
- electronic calculators
- electronic data interchanges
- quantized electronic structure
- quantized electronic structures
Words that rhyme with electronic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ionic
- laconic
- masonic
- mnemonic
- monic
- monophonic
- monotonic
- pythonic
- Teutonic
- catatonic
- colonic
- histrionic
- homophonic
- infrasonic
- moronic
- planktonic
- platonic
- polytonic
- sardonic
- Slavonic
- sonic
- supersonic
- syntonic
- ambisonic
- anionic
- aplatonic
- apophonic
- arachidonic
- autochthonic
- avionic
- bacterioplanktonic
- Bonnick
- bosonic
- breviconic
- bubonic
- Byronic
- carbonic
- chthonic
- clonic
- conic
- cryonic
- Decameronic
- diatonic
- eugonic
- euphonic
- eutonic
- glyconic
- hadronic
Questions about electronic
- What does electronic mean?
- Electronic means of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
- What is electronic in Tamil?
- Electronic in Tamil is இலத்திரனுக்குரிய, மின்னணுவியல். See Electronic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is electronic?
- Electronic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce electronic?
- Electronic is pronounced /ˌɛl.ɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪk/ (UK).
Words near electronic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: electronic (page history and authors); electronic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); electronic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); electronic (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); electronic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वैद्युतक (Sanskrit) (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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-electronic.ogg.
Cite this entry: “electronic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/electronic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.