Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • suffix A chemical compound that is not a ketone or a compound that contains oxygen in a carbonyl group.
  • suffix A discrete, small unit, such as a subatomic particle.
  • suffix A property of a physical system when quantized as a particle.
  • suffix A sequence of nucleotides or region of DNA.
  • suffix Inert gas.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of –one.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From (electr)on (influenced by Greek -on, neuter of -os, n. and adj. suff., and -on, neuter of -ōn, n. and adj. suff.)]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin, from (arg)on.]

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