cosmotrão
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English cosmotron.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /koz.moˈtɾɐ̃w̃/ [koz.moˈtɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /koʒ.moˈtɾɐ̃w̃/ [koʒ.moˈtɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɔʒ.mɔˈtɾɐ̃w̃/
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: cos‧mo‧trão
Noun
cosmotrão m (plural cosmotrões)
- (physics) cosmotron (name given to the proton synchrotron located in Brookhaven, capable of supplying protons with an energy of three gigaelectron volts)
Further reading
- “cosmotrão”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “cosmotrão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025