Definitions for photons

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photons pho·ton

Spelling: [foh-ton]

IPA: /ˈfoʊ tɒn/

Photons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in photons (hnoopst).

Definitions for photons

noun

1. a quantum of electromagnetic radiation, usually considered as an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of one. Symbol: γ.

Origin of photons

First recorded in 1900-05; phot- + -on¹

Examples for photons

Among his pastimes was designing a solar-power car, the photon Torpedo.

Or, the photon may be retained for a while and emitted again relatively unchanged—the effect observed in luminous paint.

When the gamma rays enter the sleeve, they interact with that photon gas, annihilating into electron-positron pairs.

The medicine worked because the photon–the quantum bundle of light and the carrier of the electromagnetic force–has no mass.

"Well, you know what happens when a photon comes in contact with the atomic structure of matter," Kato said.

Or there may be an inelastic collision, when the photon hits an atom and knocks out an electron—the old photoelectric effect.

There were hundreds of scintillations, each caused by a nuclear particle or photon striking the screen.