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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