| BIOTRON | • biotron n. (Biology) A chamber in which the effects of climate on organisms can be studied. • BIOTRON n. a climate control chamber. |
| CHRONOTRON | • CHRONOTRON n. a device for measuring very small time intervals. |
| COSMOTRON | • cosmotron n. (Physics) A proton synchrotron. • COSMOTRON n. a large synchrotron used for accelerating protons to high energies. |
| CRYOTRON | • cryotron n. (Physics) A switch that employs superconductivity. • CRYOTRON n. a tiny form of electronic switch operating in a bath of liquid helium a few degrees above absolute zero. |
| CYCLOTRON | • cyclotron n. An early particle accelerator in which charged particles were generated at a central source and accelerated… • CYCLOTRON n. a type of particle accelerator. |
| ISOTRON | • isotron n. A device that uses an electrical field to separate the isotopes of uranium. • isotron n. A kind of shortwave antenna consisting of a coil between two angled sheet-metal plates. • ISOTRON n. a device for separating isotopes. |
| KENOTRON | • kenotron n. A kind of vacuum rectifier, used for the power supply in X-ray equipment. • KENOTRON n. a type of diode (valve). |
| MELLOTRON | • mellotron n. (Music) An early electronic keyboard instrument that played back prerecorded sounds. • MELLOTRON n. (tradename) an electronic keyboard instrument programmed to produce the tape-recorder sounds of orchestral instruments. |
| MESOTRON | • mesotron n. (Physics, dated) meson. • MESOTRON n. a former name for the meson, a subatomic particle. |
| PHYTOTRON | • phytotron n. (Biology) A laboratory in the form of a greenhouse or similar building in which plants can be grown… • PHYTOTRON n. an apparatus that produces climates artificially for the study of plant growth. |
| PLIOTRON | • pliotron n. A hard vacuum triode. • PLIOTRON n. a type of vacuum tube. |
| STROBOTRON | • strobotron n. A cold-cathode tube designed for high-current narrow pulses, used in high-speed photography. • STROBOTRON n. a gas-filled electron tube used esp. as a source of bright flashes of light for a stroboscope. |
| SYNCHROTRON | • synchrotron n. (Physics) A form of cyclotron in which charged particles are accelerated by an electric field that is… • SYNCHROTRON n. a type of very high-energy particle accelerator. |
| TROCHOTRON | • TROCHOTRON n. a trochoidal magnetron, high-frequency counting tube which deflects a beam on to radially disposed electrodes. |