-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).
Origin of -tron
by initial shortening of
electron, with perhaps accidental allusion to the Gk instrumental suffix
-tron, as in
árotron plough
Words nearby -tron
British Dictionary definitions for -tron
-tron
suffix forming nouns
indicating a vacuum tube
magnetron
indicating an instrument for accelerating atomic or subatomic particles
synchrotron
Word Origin for -tron
from Greek, suffix indicating instrument