photon

See also: Photon

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photon

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Etymology

From photo- +‎ -on. Coined by American physicist Leonard Troland in 1916 as a unit of light hitting the retina, and later popularized in a more modern sense by Gilbert N. Lewis, with the term gaining acceptance in the physics community by the late 1920s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊtɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊtɒn

Noun

photon (plural photons)

2. (particle physics) The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.
   • 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:

     The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.

Derived terms

• antiphoton
• biophoton
• biphoton
• diphoton
• dual photon absorptiometry
• graviphoton
• last photon orbit
• monophoton
• multiphoton
• notoph
• photino
• photon belt
• photon circle
• photonic
• photonics
• photon mapping
• photon sail
• photon sphere
• photon tunnelling
• proto-photon
• soft photon
• super-photon
• superphoton
• triphoton

Translations

quantum of light

Arabic: فُوتُون m (futūn) Armenian: ֆոտոն (hy) (foton) Asturian: fotón m Basque: fotoi (eu) Belarusian: фато́н m (fatón) Bengali: ফোটন (bn) (phōṭon) Bulgarian: фото́н m (fotón) Burmese: ဖိုတွန် (hpui-twan) Catalan: fotó (ca) m Chinese: Hokkien: 光子 (kng chú) Mandarin: 光子 (zh) (guāngzǐ) Czech: foton (cs) m Danish: foton c Dutch: foton (nl) n, lichtdeeltje (nl) Esperanto: fotono Estonian: footon (et), valguseosake Finnish: fotoni (fi), valohiukkanen, valokvantti (fi) French: photon (fr) m Galician: fotón (gl) m Georgian: ფოტონი (poṭoni) German: Photon (de) n, Lichtteilchen Greek: φωτόνιο (el) n (fotónio) Gujarati: પ્રકાશાણુ m (prakāśāṇu) Hebrew: פוטון (he) m Hindi: प्रकाशाणु (prakāśāṇu), फ़ोटोन (foṭon) Hungarian: foton (hu) Icelandic: ljóseind (is) f, fótóna f, (uncommon) ljósögn f Ido: fotono (io) Italian: fotone (it) m Japanese: 光子 (ja) (こうし, kōshi) Khmer: អាភាណូ (aapʰie noo) Korean: 광자(光子) (ko) (gwangja) Low German: German Low German: Lichtdeelken Macedonian: фотон m (foton) Malagasy: voan-kazavana (mg) Malay: foton (ms) Maori: pūaho Marathi: प्रकाशाणू m (prakāśāṇū) Mongolian: фотон (foton) ᠹᠣᠲ᠋ᠣᠨ (foton) Nepali: प्रकाशाणु (prakāśāṇu) Norwegian: foton n, lyskvant Bokmål: lyskvant, foton n Nynorsk: lyskvant, foton n Persian: فوتون (fa) (foton) Polish: foton (pl) m Portuguese: Brazilian: fóton (pt) m European: fotão (pt) m Romanian: foton (ro) m Russian: фото́н (ru) m (fotón) Sanskrit: प्रकाशाणु m (prakāśāṇu) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: фо̀то̄н m Roman: fòtōn (sh) m Spanish: fotón (es) m Swahili: fotoni (sw) Swedish: foton (sv) c Tagalog: sugapik Tamil: ஒளியன் (oḷiyaṉ) Thai: โฟตอน (fohdton) Turkish: foton (tr) Ukrainian: фото́н m (fotón) Vietnamese: quang tử (光子) Võro: foodon Welsh: ffoton m

See also

• phonon
• plasmon

Anagrams

• Hopton, notoph

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

photon

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔ.tɔ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Paris)):

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Noun

photon m (plural photons)

1. (particle physics) photon

Further reading

• “photon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.