electron

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɛk.tɹɒn/
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• General-American: /ɪˈlɛk.tɹɑn/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 L EH1 K T R AA0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Blend of electric + ion, coined by Anglo-Irish scientist George Stoney in 1891, changed by him multiple times from an earlier electrolion and original electrine (used as early as 1874) as the name for the electric charge associated with a univalent ion. Compare electro-, -on. The particle ("corpuscule") was discovered in 1896. The name electrion was proposed for the particle in 1906 but curtailed because Hendrik Lorentz preferred electron.

100 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аелектрон (ajelekʼtʼron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Afrikaans: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Albanian: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Arabic: إِلِكْتْرُون (ʔiliktrūn) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Arabic: كُهَيْرِب (kuhayrib) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Armenian: էլեկտրոն (ēlektron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Asturian: electrón — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Azerbaijani: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Basque: elektroi — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Belarusian: электро́н (eljektrón) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Bengali: ইলেকট্রন (ilekṭron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Breton: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Breton: elektronenn — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Bulgarian: електро́н (elektrón) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Burmese: အီလက်ထရွန် (ilakhta.rwan) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Catalan: electró — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Chinese Cantonese: 電子 /电子 (din6 zi2) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Chinese: 電子 /电子 (zh-min-nan) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Chinese Mandarin: 電子 /电子 (diànzǐ) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Czech: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Danish: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Dutch: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Esperanto: elektrono — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Estonian: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Finnish: elektroni — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• French: électron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Galician: electrón — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Georgian: ელექტრონი (elekṭroni) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• German: Elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Greek: ηλεκτρόνιο (ilektrónio) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Gujarati: વીજાણુ (vījāṇu) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Hawaiian: huna ʻine — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Hebrew: אֶלֶקְטְרוֹן (elektrón) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Hindi: विद्युदणु (vidyudṇu) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Hindi: इलेक्ट्रॉन (ilekṭrŏn) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Hungarian: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Icelandic: rafeind — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Ido: elektrono — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Indonesian: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Interlingua: electron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Irish: leictreon — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Italian: elettrone — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Japanese: 電子 (denshi) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Kannada: ಋಣವಿದ್ಯುತ್ಕಣ (ṛṇavidyutkaṇa) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Kazakh: электрон (élektron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Khmer: អសន្យាណូ (ʼaʼsɑnyaanou) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Khmer: អេឡិចត្រុង (ʼeeləctrong) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Korean: 전자 (jeonja) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Northern Kurdish: kareva — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Kyrgyz: электрон (elektron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Lao: ເອເລັກຕົງ (ʼē lek tong) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Latvian: elektrons — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Lithuanian: elektronas — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Macedonian: електро́н (elektrón) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Malay: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Māori: irahiko — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Marathi: इलेक्ट्रॉन (ilekṭrŏn) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Mongolian: электрон (elektron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Norwegian Bokmål: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Occitan: electron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Pashto: الکترون (elektron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Persian: الکترون (elektron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Polish: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Brazilian Portuguese: elétron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• European Portuguese: eletrão — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Punjabi: ਬਿਜਲਾਣੂ (bijlāṇū) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Quechua: iliktrun — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Romanian: electron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Russian: электро́н (elektrón) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Serbo-Croatian: елѐктро̄н — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Serbo-Croatian: elèktrōn — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Sinhalese: ඉලෙක්ට්රෝන (ilekṭrōna) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Slovak: elektrón — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Slovene: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Spanish: electrón — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Spanish: negatrón — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Swedish: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Tagalog: dagisik — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Tajik: электрон (elektron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Tamil: எதிர்மின்னி (etirmiṉṉi) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Tamil: எலெக்ட்ரான் (elekṭrāṉ) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Tamil: மின்னணு (miṉṉaṇu) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Tatar: электрон (elektron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Thai: อิเล็กตรอน (ì-lék-dtrɔn) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Tibetan: གློག་རྡུལ (glog rdul) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Turkish: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Turkmen: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Ukrainian: електро́н (elektrón) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Urdu: بَرْقِیَہ (barqiyā) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Urdu: الیکٹران (ilekṭrān) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Uyghur: ئېلېكترون (ëlëktron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Uzbek: elektron — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Vietnamese: ê-léc-trông — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Vietnamese: điện tử — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Wolof: mbëjfepp — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Yiddish: עלעקטראָן (elektron) — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Yoruba: ẹ̀lẹ́kítírọ̀n — the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms
• Japanese: エレクトロン (erekutoron) — an alloy
• Japanese: マグネシウム合金 (maguneshiumu gōkin) — an alloy
• Polish: elektron — an alloy