cyclotron

English

Etymology

cyclo- +‎ -tron

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪklətɹɒn/

Noun

cyclotron (plural cyclotrons)

1. An early particle accelerator in which charged particles were generated at a central source and accelerated spirally outward through a fixed magnetic field and alternating electric fields.

Related terms

• cyclotronic

Translations

particle accelerator

• Basque: ziklotroi (eu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迴旋加速器／回旋加速器 (zh) (huíxuán jiāsùqì)

• Esperanto: ciklotrono
• Finnish: syklotroni
• French: cyclotron (fr) m
• Georgian: ციკლოტრონი (ciḳloṭroni)
• German: Zyklotron (de) n
• Greek: κύκλοτρο (el) n (kýklotro), κυκλοτρόνιο (el) n (kyklotrónio)
• Hungarian: ciklotron (hu)
• Indonesian: siklotron (id)
• Italian: ciclotrone (it) m
• Japanese: 加速器 (かそくき, kasokuki), サイクロトロン (saikurotoron)
• Polish: cyklotron (pl) m
• Portuguese: cíclotron m (Brazil), ciclotrão m (Portugal)
• Russian: циклотро́н (ru) m (ciklotrón)
• Spanish: ciclotrón m
• Swedish: cyklotron (sv) c

French

Etymology

From cyclo- +‎ -tron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.klɔ.tʁɔ̃/

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Noun

cyclotron m (plural cyclotrons)

1. cyclotron

Further reading

• “cyclotron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.