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energon en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɛnəɹd͡ʒɒn/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From energy + -on.

Meanings

1. A proposed form of energetic particle.
   • But if almost all energy of a material photon is contained within the copulons between its energons rather than in the energons themselves, this means that it loses its structure: the energons are barely still anything more than hollow sacks […] 2007, Niels Vandamme, Tempest - the Transition, page 153:
   • At the natural next step the man is not there either, but has been replaced by his constituent electrons and, I suppose, some vitons, energons, and one personalitron. 1938, Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives:

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