cation

See also: catión and cátion

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek κατιόν (katión, “(thing) going down”), neuter past participle of κάτειμι (káteimi, “go down”), from κατά (katá, “down”) (see cata-) + εἶμι (eîmi, “go”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: kătʹ-ī-ən, IPA^(key): /ˈkætˌaɪ.ən/
• (US) enPR: kătʹ-ī-ŏn, IPA^(key): /ˈkætˌaɪ.ɒn/

Noun

cation (plural cations)

1. (chemistry) A positively charged ion—opposed to anion.
2. (chemistry) The ion in an electrolyzed solution that migrates to the cathode.

Derived terms

Terms derived from cation

• bication
• carbocation
• cation exchange
• cationic
• cationize
• dication
• monocation

• organocation
• polycation
• radical cation
• supercation
• tetracation
• trication

Related terms

• anion
• ion

Translations

a positively charged ion

• Armenian: կատիոն (hy) (kation)
• Basque: katioi (eu)
• Catalan: catió (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陽離子 (zh), 阳离子 (zh) (yánglízi)

• Czech: kationt m
• Esperanto: katjono
• Finnish: kationi (fi)
• French: cation (fr) m
• Galician: catión m
• German: Kation (de) n
• Greek: κατιόν (el) n (katión)
• Hungarian: kation (hu)
• Ido: kationo (io)
• Italian: catione (it) m

• Japanese: 陽イオン (ja) (yō ion), カチオン (kachion)
• Korean: 양이온 (yang-ion)
• Occitan: cation m
• Persian: کاتیون‎ (fa) (kâtiyon)
• Polish: kation (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Europe) catião (pt) m, (Brazil) cátion (pt) m
• Romanian: cation (ro) m
• Russian: катио́н (ru) m (katión)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: катјон m

  Roman: katjon m

• Spanish: catión (es) m
• Swedish: katjon (sv) c
• Tagalog: balipik
• Turkish: katyon (tr)

Anagrams

• actino-, action, atonic

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /katjɔ̃/

Noun

cation m (plural cations)

1. cation

Anagrams

• action, contai

Further reading

• “cation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).