tron
-tron
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 perhaps accidental allusion to the Gk instrumental suffix -tron, as in árotron plough
by initial shortening of electron, with perhaps accidental allusion to the Gk instrumental suffix -tron, as in árotron plough
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| —n | |
| 1. | a public weighing machine |
| 2. | the place where a tron is set up; marketplace |
| [C15: from Old French trone, from Latin trutina, from Greek trutanē balance, set of scales] | |
| -tron | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| 1. | indicating a vacuum tube: magnetron |
| 2. | indicating an instrument for accelerating atomic or subatomic particles: synchrotron |
| [from Greek, suffix indicating instrument] | |
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Word Origin & History
-tron
as a suffix in new compounds formed in physics, 1939, abstracted from electron (Gk. -tron was an instrumentive suffix).
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tron
v. [NRL, CMU; prob. fr. the movie "Tron"] To become inaccessible except via email or `talk(1)', especially when one is normally available via telephone or in person. Frequently used in the past tense, as in: "Ran seems to have tronned on us this week" or "Gee, Ran, glad you were able to un-tron yourself". One may also speak of `tron mode'; compare spod.Note that many dialects of BASIC have a TRON/TROFF command pair that enables/disables line number tracing; this has no obvious relationship to the slang usage.
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Computing Dictionary
TRON definition
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2.
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 definition
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.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-03)
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