photon
Plural: photons
Noun
- An elementary particle, a quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation.
- a quantum of electromagnetic radiation; an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle
- The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.
Examples
- Dropping PHOTON on a triple-word score felt like illuminating the entire Words With Friends board.
Origin / Etymology
From photo- + -on. Coined by American physicist Leonard Troland in 1916 as a unit of light hitting the retina, and later popularized in a more modern sense by Gilbert N. Lewis, with the term gaining acceptance in the physics community by the late 1920s.
Scrabble Score: 11
photon: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordphoton: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
photon: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
photon: valid Words With Friends Word