axion
pronunciation
How to pronounce axion in British English:
UK [ˈæksiən]
How to pronounce axion in American English:
US [ˈæksiˌɑn]
Word Origin
- axion (n.)
- 1978, from axial + scientific suffix -on.
Example
- 1. The x-ray images to date , hudson said , have turned up empty of axion signatures .
- 2. They are manufacturing intense magnetic fields in the hopes of detecting microwave signals of an axion decaying into a single , real photon .
- 3. Meanwhile , america 's marines are testing a special version of axion 's battery in some of their assault vehicles .
- 4. And in the axion dark matter experiment at lawrence livermore national laboratory in california , astrophysicist karl van bibber and his colleagues hope to create their own axions .
- 5. Any such deviations could give hints of the postulated particle known as the axion , which could in turn prove the existence and nature of dark matter .