neutron

See also: Neutron, neutrón, and nêutron

English

Etymology

From neutral +‎ -on. Coined by Scottish-Australian physicist William Sutherland in 1899 in a paper in the Philosophical Magazine. Subsequent usage was sporadic and theoretical, sometimes referring to neutrinos rather than neutrons, and the modern sense was reintroduced alongside proton by Ernest Rutherford in 1920.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)uː.tɹɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.tɹɑn/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

neutron (plural neutrons)

1. (physics) A subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and having no charge; it is a combination of an up quark and two down quarks.

   Comeronyms: proton, electron

   Holonyms: atom, nucleus

Synonyms

• n (symbol)

Hypernyms

• baryon
• nucleon

Derived terms

• anti-neutron
• antineutron
• dineutron
• free neutron
• neutron activation analysis
• neutron bomb
• neutron capture
• neutron cross section
• neutron diffraction
• neutron drip line
• neutron flux
• neutronic
• neutron interferometer
• neutronium
• neutronization
• neutron number
• neutron optics
• neutron radiation
• neutron-rich
• neutron scattering
• neutron spectrometry
• neutron star
• photoneutron
• proto-neutron star
• quasineutron
• tetraneutron
• thermal neutron

 

Translations

subatomic particle

• Arabic: نْيُوتْرُون‎ m (nyutrūn), نُوتْرُون‎ m (nutrūn), نْيُتْرُون‎ m (nyutrūn), نُتْرُون‎ m (nutrūn)
• Armenian: նեյտրոն (hy) (neytron)
• Asturian: neutrón m
• Basque: neutroi
• Bengali: নিউট্রন (bn) (niuṭron)
• Breton: neutron (br) (collective), neutronenn (br) f sg
• Catalan: neutró (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 中子 (zung¹ zi²)

  Mandarin: 中子 (zh) (zhōngzǐ)

• Czech: neutron (cs) m
• Danish: neutron (da) c
• Dutch: neutron (nl) n
• Esperanto: neŭtrono
• Finnish: neutroni (fi)
• French: neutron (fr) m
• Galician: neutrón (gl) m
• German: Neutron (de) n
• Greek: νετρόνιο (el) n (netrónio)
• Gujarati: નપુંસણુ (napũsṇu)
• Hawaiian: huna hohoki
• Hebrew: נֵיטרוֹן‎ (he) m (neitrón)
• Hindi: नपुंसणु (napunsṇu)
• Icelandic: nifteind (is) f
• Ido: neutrono (io)
• Interlingua: neutron
• Irish: neodrón m
• Italian: neutrone (it) m
• Japanese: 中性子 (ja) (ちゅうせいし, chūseishi)
• Kazakh: нейтрон (kk) (neitron)
• Khmer: អព្យាកតាណូ (ak pyeak ta no), ណឺត្រុង (ner trong)
• Korean: 중성자(中性子) (ko) (jungseongja)
• Latvian: neitrons m
• Macedonian: неутро́н m (neutrón)
• Manx: naeearane
• Maori: iramoe
• Mongolian: нейтрон (mn) (nejtron)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nøytron (no) n

  Nynorsk: nøytron (nn) m or n

• Persian: نوترون‎ (fa)
• Polish: neutron (pl) m
• Portuguese: nêutron (pt) m, neutrão (pt) m (European)
• Romanian: neutron (ro) m
• Russian: нейтро́н (ru) m (nejtrón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: неу̀тро̄н m

  Roman: neùtrōn (sh) m

• Slovene: nevtron (sl) m
• Spanish: neutrón (es)
• Swahili: nyutroni
• Swedish: neutron (sv) c
• Tagalog: awansik
• Thai: นิวตรอน (th) (niu-dtrɔn)
• Tibetan: བར་གནས་རྡུལ་ཕྲན (bar gnas rdul phran), ཀྲུང་ཙི (krung tsi)
• Turkish: nötron (tr)
• Ukrainian: нейтрон m (nejtron)
• Vietnamese: nơtron (vi)
• Welsh: niwtron
• Yiddish: נייטראָן‎ m (neytron)

See also

• electron
• proton

Anagrams

• nontrue

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

neutron (plural neutrone)

1. (physics) neutron

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnø.trɔ̃n/

Noun

neutron m (collective, plural neutronennoù, singulative neutronenn)

1. (physics) neutrons

Derived terms

• neutronek

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɛu̯tron]

Noun

neutron m inan

1. neutron

Declension

Declension of neutron (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	neutron	neutrony
genitive	neutronu	neutronů
dative	neutronu	neutronům
accusative	neutron	neutrony
vocative	neutrone	neutrony
locative	neutronu	neutronech
instrumental	neutronem	neutrony

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nøʊ̯ˈtˢʁoˀn]

Noun

neutron c (singular definite neutronen, plural indefinite neutroner)

1. (physics) neutron

Declension

Declension of neutron

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	neutron	neutronen	neutroner	neutronerne
genitive	neutrons	neutronens	neutroners	neutronernes

References

• “neutron” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English neutron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnøː.trɔn/, /ˈnœy̯.trɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: neu‧tron

Noun

neutron n (plural neutronen, diminutive neutrontje n or neutroontje n)

1. (physics) neutron

Derived terms

• neutronenbom
• neutronenster

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English neutron, a scientific coinage based on Latin neuter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nø.tʁɔ̃/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

neutron m (plural neutrons)

1. (physics) neutron

   Coordinate terms: électron, proton

Derived terms

• étoile à neutrons

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɛutron]
• Hyphenation: ne‧ut‧ron
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

neutron (plural neutronok)

1. (physics) neutron (subatomic particle having no charge)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	neutron	neutronok
accusative	neutront	neutronokat
dative	neutronnak	neutronoknak
instrumental	neutronnal	neutronokkal
causal-final	neutronért	neutronokért
translative	neutronná	neutronokká
terminative	neutronig	neutronokig
essive-formal	neutronként	neutronokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	neutronban	neutronokban
superessive	neutronon	neutronokon
adessive	neutronnál	neutronoknál
illative	neutronba	neutronokba
sublative	neutronra	neutronokra
allative	neutronhoz	neutronokhoz
elative	neutronból	neutronokból
delative	neutronról	neutronokról
ablative	neutrontól	neutronoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	neutroné	neutronoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	neutronéi	neutronokéi

Possessive forms of neutron
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	neutronom	neutronjaim
2nd person sing.	neutronod	neutronjaid
3rd person sing.	neutronja	neutronjai
1st person plural	neutronunk	neutronjaink
2nd person plural	neutronotok	neutronjaitok
3rd person plural	neutronjuk	neutronjaik

Further reading

• neutron in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈneu̯.tron/, [ˈnɛu̯t̪rɔn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈneu̯.tron/, [ˈnɛːu̯t̪ron]

Noun

neutron m (genitive neutrōnis); third declension

1. (physics, New Latin) neutron

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	neutron	neutrōnēs
Genitive	neutrōnis	neutrōnum
Dative	neutrōnī	neutrōnibus
Accusative	neutrōnem	neutrōnēs
Ablative	neutrōne	neutrōnibus
Vocative	neutron	neutrōnēs

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English neutron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛw.trɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛwtrɔn
• Syllabification: neut‧ron

Noun

neutron m inan

1. neutron

Declension

Declension of neutron

	singular	plural
nominative	neutron	neutrony
genitive	neutronu	neutronów
dative	neutronowi	neutronom
accusative	neutron	neutrony
instrumental	neutronem	neutronami
locative	neutronie	neutronach
vocative	neutronie	neutrony

Derived terms

adjective

• neutronowy

 

noun

• antyneutron

 

Further reading

• neutron in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• neutron in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French neutron.

Noun

neutron m (plural neutroni)

1. neutron

Declension

Declension of neutron

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) neutron	neutronul	(niște) neutroni	neutronii
genitive/dative	(unui) neutron	neutronului	(unor) neutroni	neutronilor
vocative	neutronule		neutronilor

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

neùtrōn m (Cyrillic spelling неу̀тро̄н)

1. (physics) neutron

Declension

Declension of neutron

	singular	plural
nominative	neùtrōn	neutroni
genitive	neutróna	neutrona
dative	neutronu	neutronima
accusative	neutron	neutrone
vocative	neutrone	neutroni
locative	neutronu	neutronima
instrumental	neutronom	neutronima

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neːɵˈtroːn/

Noun

neutron c

1. (physics) neutron

Declension

Declension of neutron
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	neutron	neutronen	neutroner	neutronerna
Genitive	neutrons	neutronens	neutroners	neutronernas

See also

• proton
• elektron

Venetian

Noun

neutron m (plural neutruni)

1. (physics) neutron