Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Preceding the tone or accent.
  • Of or pertaining to a proton or anlage. See proton, 1.

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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or composed of protons.

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Examples

  • The two problems that I see, besides infrastructure, comes from natural gas, but also the protonic exchange memo brain, the fuel cell itself is really, really expensive.

    CNN Transcript May 27, 2008 2008

  • We could experience total protonic reversal and the end of … everything.

    Think Progress » Colbert and O’Reilly, face to face? 2007

  • Our senses may tell us, when we touch a chair, that it is solid, but actually it is a field of electronic and protonic energies moving at a set rate of vibration.

    CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE Jennifer Ann Daddio 2003

  • Our senses may tell us, when we touch a chair, that it is solid, but actually it is a field of electronic and protonic energies moving at a set rate of vibration.

    CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE Jennifer Ann Daddio 2003

  • The two enormous generators, the blackness of the protonic shield, and the great artificial matter generator, throwing an inner shield impervious to the cosmics Thett gave off as it vanished, both were whining.

    Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

  • Then it was over, and the skies were clear once more as Arcot lowered the protonic screen silently.

    Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

  • And the six smaller machines, which Arcot had succeeded in interconnecting with the protonic generator, were whining too.

    Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

  • Arcot threw out his protonic shield, and retreated to half a million miles, as he had said.

    Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

  • "If we discover the Higgs, that's a miraculous discovery," said Harris Kagan, a physics professor at OSU working on protonic collisions.

    The Lantern RSS 2010

  • After a nice winter hiatus, Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider is coming back online soon, set to resume smashing protonic beams at one another with the force of 3.5 trillion electron-volts (TeV) per beam, or 7 TeV in total.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

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