Etymology

holon

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Today it means: One of three kinds of quasiparticle (the others being the spinon and orbiton) that electrons in solids are able to split into during the process of spin–charge separation, when extremely tightly confined at temperatures close to absolute zero. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ὅλος
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holon · noun1

From hole + -on.

holon · noun2

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromὅλος“whole”
  2. English todayholon

From holo- (from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”)) + -on (like taxon or meron). Coined by Arthur Koestler in his 1967 book The Ghost in the Machine.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekὅλος all →

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