photon
noun/ˈfəʊtɒn/
/ˈfəʊtɑːn/
(physics)- a unit of electromagnetic energyTopics Physics and chemistryc2Word Originearly 20th cent.: from Greek phōs, phōt- ‘light’, on the pattern of electron.
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