单词 | cryotron |
释义 | cryotron in British English (ˈkraɪəˌtrɒn) noun a miniature switch working at the temperature of liquid helium and depending for its action on the production and destruction of superconducting properties in the conductor cryotron in American English (ˈkraiəˌtrɑn) noun Electronics & Computing a cryogenic device that uses the principle that a varying magnetic field can cause the resistance of a superconducting element to change rapidly between its high normal and low superconductive values: used as a switch and as a computer-memory element Word origin [1955–60; cryo- + -tron]This word is first recorded in the period 1955–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: new wave, opioid, rite of passage, rollout, softwarecryo- is a combining form meaning “icy cold,” “frost,” used in the formation of compoundwords. Other words that use the affix cryo- include: cryoelectronics, cryohydrate, cryolite, cryopreservation, cryoprobe; -tron is a combining form extracted from electron, used with nouns or combining forms, principally in the names of electron tubes (ignitron; klystron; magnetron) and of devices for accelerating subatomic particles (cosmotron; cyclotron); also, more generally, in the names of any kind of chamber or apparatus used inexperiments (biotron) |
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