[trahy-ton] 
| a positively-charged particle consisting of a proton and two neutrons, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of tritium. |
[trahyt-n] | 1. | Classical Mythology. a son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, represented as having the head and trunk of a man and the tail of a fish, and as using a conch-shell trumpet. |
| 2. | Astronomy. a moon of Neptune. |
| 3. | (lowercase ) any of various marine gastropods of the family Cymatiidae, having a large, spiral, often beautifully colored shell. |
| 4. | (lowercase) the shell of a triton. |
[trahy-ton-ik] , adjective | tri·ton 1 (trīt'n) n. Any of various chiefly tropical marine gastropod mollusks of the family Cymatiidae, having a pointed, spirally twisted, often colorfully marked shell. [Latin Trītōn, Triton (from representations of the sea god holding a conch shell); see Triton.] |
| tri·ton 2 (trī'tŏn') n. The nucleus of tritium, consisting of two neutrons and one proton. [trit(ium) + -on1.] |
| Tri·ton (trīt'n) n.
[Latin Trītōn, from Greek.] |
Triton processor
Intel's Pentium core logic chip set. In addition to the traditional features, this chip set supports: EDO DRAM to increase the bandwidth of the DRAM interface; "pipelined burst SRAM" for a cheaper, faster second level cache; "bus master IDE" control logic to reduce processor load; a plug and play port for easy implementation of functions such as audio.
The Triton I chipset (official name 82430FX) consists of 4 chips: one 82437FX TSC (Triton Sysetm Controller), two 82438FX TDP (Triton Data Path), and one 82371FB PIIX (PCI IDE Xcellerator). It supports PB Cache, EDO DRAM, and a maximum PCI and memory burst data transfer rate of 100 megabytes per second.
There are also Moble Triton (82430MX), Triton II (82430HX), and the Triton VX (82430VX) chip sets.
Introduction.
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triton
nucleus of the heaviest hydrogen isotope, tritium, or hydrogen-3. Tritons, which consist of one proton and two neutrons, result from certain nuclear reactions. The collision of a deuteron with another deuteron, for example, sometimes produces a proton and a triton. See also tritium.
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