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Meaning of "chronon" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CHRONON

ˈkrəʊnɒn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHRONON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Chronon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CHRONON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Chronon

A chronon is a proposed quantum of time, that is, a discrete and indivisible "unit" of time as part of a hypothesis that proposes that time is not continuous.

Definition of chronon in the English dictionary

The definition of chronon in the dictionary is a unit of time equal to the time that a photon would take to traverse the diameter of an electron: about 10–24 seconds.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHRONON

Agamemnon · Agnon · Al-Anon · anon · diazinon · guenon · magnon · Memnon · ninon · olecranon · organon · paralipomenon · Parthenon · phonon · properispomenon · Simenon · synanon · turn-on · xenon · xoanon

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHRONON

chronographically · chronography · chronologer · chronologic · chronological · chronologically · chronologies · chronologise · chronologist · chronologize · chronology · chronometer · chronometric · chronometrical · chronometrically · chronometry · chronoscope · chronoscopic · chronoscopically · chronotherapy

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHRONON

argonon · Avignon · bourguignon · Cabernet Sauvignon · cannon · canon · cedar of Lebanon · champignon · chignon · Dungannon · fanon · filet mignon · Lebanon · Lennon · McKinnon · Menon · mignon · phenomenon · rognon · Shannon

Synonyms and antonyms of chronon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «chronon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHRONON

Find out the translation of chronon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of chronon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «chronon» in English.
zh

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chronon
1,325 millions of speakers
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chronon
570 millions of speakers
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chronon
510 millions of speakers
hi

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chronon
380 millions of speakers
ar

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كرونون
280 millions of speakers
ru

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хронон
278 millions of speakers
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chronon
270 millions of speakers
bn

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chronon
260 millions of speakers
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chronon
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Chronon
190 millions of speakers
de

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chronon
180 millions of speakers
ja

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chronon
130 millions of speakers
ko

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chronon
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Chronon
85 millions of speakers
vi

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chronon
80 millions of speakers
ta

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chronon
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

क्रॉनॉन
75 millions of speakers
tr

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Chronon
70 millions of speakers
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chronon
65 millions of speakers
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chronon
50 millions of speakers
uk

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хронони
40 millions of speakers
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chronon
30 millions of speakers
el

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Χρόνων
15 millions of speakers
af

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chronon
14 millions of speakers
sv

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chronon
10 millions of speakers
no

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chronon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of chronon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHRONON»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about chronon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHRONON»

Discover the use of chronon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to chronon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 19 - Truth ...
Each subinterval is called a chronon (2,3). A chronon is the smallest duration of time that we can represent. Other terms, such as "instant" (4), "moment" (5), "time quantum" (6), and "time unit" (7,8), have been used in the literature to describe a  ...
Allen Kent, James G. Williams, 1996
2
Chronobiology: Principles and Applications to Shifts in ...
THE CHRONON THEORY OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHM CONTROL* Charles F. Ehret Division of Biological and Medical Research, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, U.S.A. ABSTRACT. The chronon theory of circadian ...
L.E. Scheving, Franz Halberg, 1980
3
Time and Eternity
A chronon is an indivisible minimum unit of temporal duration. It has been argued that a chronon lasts perhaps io-24 seconds.59 Whatever the precise number, the important point is that a chronon is not an instant but is conceived to have ...
Brian Leftow, 2009
4
Temporal Databases: Research and Practice
Previously Used Names Event, moment. Discussion of Naming Event is already used widely within temporal databases, but is often given a different meaning (+ E3, -E5), while "moment" may be confused with the distinct terms "chronon" or ...
Opher Etzion, Sushil Jajodia, Suryanarayana Sripada, 1998
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Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 5th East ...
Possible periods can range from chronon 1 to chronon 8 (max), but at least have to range from 3 to 6 (min). The time period presented in Fig. 1b can also be perceived as having a fuzzy boundary. Next, we derive a membership function, ...
Albertas Caplinskas, Johann Eder, 2001
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Advanced Database Systems
Valid times can be represented with single chronon identifiers (i.e.. instant timestamps), with periods (i.e.. as period timestamps), or as valid-time elements, which are finite sets of periods. Valid time can be associated with Table 5.3: Valid time ...
Carlo Zaniolo, 1997
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Advances in Object-oriented Data Modeling
A valid-time chronon cv is thus a member of T>VT, a transaction-time chronon c' is a member of DTT, and a bitemporal chronon ch = (ct, cv) is an ordered pair of a transaction-time chronon and a valid-time chronon. Next, we define a set of ...
M. Papazoglou, S. Spaccapietra, Zahir Tari, 2000
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Zygmunt Zawirski: His Life and Work: With Selected Writings ...
But theory affirms something more: it says that every other duration [that is,] every slower oscillation, is achieved in a time which is an integral multiple of the shortest duration called a 'chronon' . It contains barely a few quadrillionth parts of one ...
Irena Szumilewicz, Zygmunt Zawirski, 1994
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Database and Expert Systems Applications: 7th International ...
We consider time as a finite sequence of chronons, each lasting from one system clock tick (the chronon's start time) to immediately before the next tick (the chronon's end time). We assume that the database changes (and thus, events occur) ...
Roland Wagner, Helmut Thoma, 1996
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time
A better argument is to see what happens in a mixed case. Let us consider continuous space and discrete time: is this possible? To simplify things somewhat, imagine that, from the continuous point of view, a chronon has a beginning, t;,, and ...
Craig Callender, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHRONON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term chronon is used in the context of the following news items.
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Insulectro Distributes 6 New Products Totally Unique to the PCB …
“On one side of the perspective, we are offering Isola's new laminate Chronon™ with its electrically transparent glass fiber reinforcement that ... «I-Connect007, Apr 15»
2
PodKast Lands on the Planet of the Daleks!
In the same millisecond as the chronon shell is being formed, the hot-house effect of the gamma rays will cause the primate cortex of the brain ... «Doctor Who UK Webzine, Apr 15»
3
Insulectro Hosts “Isola High-Speed Digital Product” Technical Summit
Isola has recently introduced Chronon™ to the marketplace, a laminate whose electrically invisible reinforcement eliminates skew issues in ... «I-Connect007, Apr 15»
4
Isola's New Laminate Mitigates Skew in High Speed Designs
The introduction of Chronon, which follows the 2014 launch of Gigasync®, expands the company's portfolio of PCB materials to mitigate skew ... «I-Connect007, Feb 15»
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Isola Expands Its Portfolio of PCB Materials Engineered to Mitigate …
The introduction of Chronon, which follows the 2014 launch of GigaSync®, expands the company's portfolio of PCB materials to mitigate skew ... «GlobeNewswire, Feb 15»
6
Calling Time: Remembering Worlds in Time 2012-2014
Chronons were the game's currency, and while you earned them through completing tasks, there was also the option to buy additional Chronon ... «Doctor Who UK Webzine, Feb 15»
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AppDynamics picks up $120M in the race to replace old-school …
Recently, startup Chronon Systems recalibrated its DripStat Java virtual machine monitoring software and started marketing it as APM. «VentureBeat, Jul 14»
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Thursday News: Scariest Who? A Lost Eighth Doctor Story? And …
Faster than a shuttle out of Galaxy 5, more powerful than a dose of Chronon Radiation, and packed with more information than the legendary ... «Doctor Who UK Webzine, Jul 14»
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Pullman Pub & Tapas Grille grand opening is Friday
These include an Antipasto Salad, a Petite Filet Mignon with Sauce Chronon, and Proscuitto Wrapped Chicken Breast with Pistachio Crème ... «Huntington Herald Dispatch, Apr 14»
10
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 Includes Support For Java 8
... selection, Postfix code completion for Java, a built-in debugger for JDK 8's Nashorn, and Chronon "back-in-time" Java debugger (Ultimate). «Dr. Dobb's, Mar 14»
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