How to pronounce photon
American English pronunciation
FOH-tahn
- IPA
- /ˈfoʊtɑn/
- Syllables
- FOH · tahn (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What photon means
A tiny bit of light, thought of as a particle
In a sentence: Each photon from the flashlight zipped across the room faster than you could blink.
Where it comes from: Scientists built it from a Greek word for light and the ending -on, used for tiny particles. It caught on in physics by the late 1920s.
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