electron volt

See also: electronvolt, électronvolt, and électron-volt

English

Alternative forms

• electronvolt

Noun

electron volt (plural electron volts) (abbreviated eV)

1. (physics) A unit for measuring the energy of subatomic particles; the energy equal to that attained by an electron moving through a potential difference of one volt. Equivalent to 1.6022 x 10^-19 joules.
   • 2011, Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane 2011, p. 158n:

     To get a feel for the size, the energy required to completely liberate an electron from the ground state of a hydrogen atom is 13.6 electron volts.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• gigaelectronvolt, GeV, BeV
• kiloelectronvolt, KeV
• megaelectronvolt, MeV

• millielectronvolt, meV
• teraelectronvolt, TeV

Translations

a unit for measuring the energy of subatomic particles

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子伏特／电子伏特 (zh) (diànzǐ fútè), 电子伏特 (zh) (diànzǐ fútè), 電子伏／电子伏 (zh) (diànzǐfú), 电子伏 (zh) (diànzǐfú)

• Czech: elektronvolt m
• Danish: elektronvolt
• Dutch: elektronvolt (nl) m
• Finnish: elektronivoltti (fi)
• French: électronvolt (fr) m, électron-volt (fr) m
• German: Elektronenvolt (de) n, Elektronvolt (de) n
• Hungarian: elektronvolt (hu)
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• Italian: elettronvolt (it) m
• Japanese: 電子ボルト (ja) (denshi boruto)
• Polish: elektronowolt (pl) m
• Portuguese: elétron-volt (pt)
• Romanian: electronvolt m
• Russian: электро́н-во́льт (ru) m (elektrón-vólʹt)
• Spanish: electronvoltio (es) m
• Swedish: elektronvolt (sv) c