ELECTRON Antonyms

• (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element

• (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

• a positively charged ion

• an opening into or through something

• an opening deliberately made in or through something

• one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course

• an unoccupied space

• a depression hollowed out of solid matter

• a fault

• informal terms for a difficult situation

• informal terms for the mouth

• hit the ball into the hole

• make holes in

• a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons

• an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus

• a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction

• the positively charged dense center of an atom

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail

• any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord

• the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex

• an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation

• a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron

• having a deficiency of electrons; having a higher electric potential