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a combining form extracted from electron, used with nouns or combining forms, principally in the names of electron tubes (ignitron; klystron; magnetron) and of devices for accelerating subatomic particles (cosmotron; cyclotron); also, more generally, in the names of any kind of chamber or apparatus used in experiments (biotron).
Origin:
by initial shortening of electron, with perh. accidental allusion to the Gk instrumental suffix -tron, as in árotron plough
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-tron 
as a suffix in new compounds formed in physics, 1939, abstracted from electron (Gk. -tron was an instrumentive suffix).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

TRON
1. The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus.
2. (TRace ON) A command used when debugging programs written in early line-numbered BASIC that contained GOTO and GOSUB statements.
When the TRON command had been executed, the program ran with a window open indicating the line number being executed at that instant.
The TROFF (an abbreviation for "TRace OFF") command turned the tracing off.
(2003-02-02)

tron jargon
(NRL, CMU, probably from the film "Tron") To become inaccessible except via electronic mail or talk especially when one is normally available via telephone or in person.
Compare spod.
[The Jargon File]
(1994-11-03)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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