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holon en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From hole + -on.

Meanings

1. (particle) One of three kinds of quasiparticle (the others being the spinon and orbiton) that electrons in solids are able to split into during the process of spin–charge separation, when extremely tightly confined at temperatures close to absolute zero.

Forms

Deriveds

antiholon

Synonyms

chargon

Translations (3)

km រន្ធាណូ (quasiparticle) · fi holoni (quasiparticle) · fr chargeon (quasiparticle)

holon en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From holo- (from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”)) + -on (like taxon or meron). Coined by Arthur Koestler in his 1967 book The Ghost in the Machine.

Meanings

1. Something that is both a part and a whole.
   • Before an atom is an atom, it is a holon. Before a cell is a cell, it is a holon. Before an idea is an idea, it is a holon. All of them are wholes that exist in other wholes, and thus they are all whole/parts, or holons, first and foremost (long before any “particular characteristics” are singled out by us). 1995, Ken Wilber, “The Pattern That Connects”, in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Shambhala, →ISBN, Book One, pages 33–34:

Forms

Relateds

holonic · holonym · holarchy

Translations (3)

de Holon (connection of the part and the whole) · fr holon (connection of the part and the whole) · fi holoni (connection of the part and the whole)

wikipedia: The Ghost in the Machine