LATRON | • latron n. (Obsolete) A robber or brigand; one who plunders. • LATRON n. (obsolete) a robber, also LADRON, LADRONE. |
MATRON | • matron n. A mature or elderly woman. • matron n. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children. • matron n. A woman of staid or motherly manners. |
NATRON | • natron n. (Mineralogy) A crystalline mixture of hydrous sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, with the chemical… • NATRON n. (French) a mineral, native hydrous sodium carbonate. |
PATRON | • patron n. One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate. • patron n. An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble. • patron n. A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant. |
DIATRON | • diatron n. (Dated, physics) An electronic circuit containing diodes. • DIATRON n. a circuitry design that uses diodes. |
BETATRON | • betatron n. (Physics) A form of cyclotron used to accelerate electrons to high speed. • BETATRON n. an electron accelerator. |
BEVATRON | • bevatron n. A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts. • BEVATRON n. a proton accelerator. |
COPATRON | • copatron n. A joint patron; a patron of the same person or organisation. • co-patron n. Alternative form of copatron. • COPATRON n. a fellow patron. |
DYNATRON | • dynatron n. A tetrode in which the voltage on the screen grid is higher than that on the control grid, causing the… • DYNATRON n. an electrode thermionic valve used to generate continuous oscillation. |
EMPATRON | • EMPATRON v. (Shakespeare) to patronize. |
NEGATRON | • negatron n. (Physics, obsolete) The electron. • NEGATRON n. a hypothetical atomic particle with mass equal to that of a proton, but with a negative charge equal to that of an electron, also NEGATON. |
SKIATRON | • skiatron n. A kind of cathode ray tube that replaces the conventional light-emitting phosphor layer on the face… • SKIATRON n. a cathode-ray tube. |
TEVATRON | • TEVATRON n. a kind of particle accelerator. |
RESNATRON | • resnatron n. (Historical) A large power tube designed to jam enemy radar by generating power at microwave frequencies. • RESNATRON n. a high-power, high-frequency tetrode. |
SIGMATRON | • SIGMATRON n. a machine generating high-potential X-rays. |
THYRATRON | • thyratron n. (Electronics) Any of several types of thermoelectric valve once used as a high-speed switch. • THYRATRON n. a gas-filled valve with a heated cathode, able to carry very high currents. |
RHUMBATRON | • RHUMBATRON n. a cavity resonator. |