cosmotrão

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English cosmotron.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koz.moˈtɾɐ̃w̃/ [koz.moˈtɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (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)

1. (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, 2003–2024
• “cosmotrão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024