Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to positrons.
The element bombarded should be of high isotopic content, and should not give any other positronic radioelement whose lifetime is comparable to the one looked for.
1937 September 1, Clifford Holley, Seymour Bernstein, “Grating Space of Barium-Copper-Stearate Films”, in Physical Review, volume 52, page 525 - not comparableliteratureOf or pertaining to a supposed analogue of electronics using positrons
By exact count, there are seventy-five thousand, two hundred and thirty-four operations necessary for the manufacture of a single positronic brain.
1941 May, Isaac Asimov, “Liar!”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 3
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From positron + -ic. The science fiction sense was coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1941 in his short story "Liar!".
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Brazilian Portuguese positrônico
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Czech positronový
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European Portuguese positrónico
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Italian positronico
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Russian позитро́нный
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Spanish positrónico
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Cite this entry
positronic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/positronic
“positronic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/positronic. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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