positive electron

American  

noun

Physics.

1. positron.

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Etymology

Origin of positive electron

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Blackett, described on his blue plaque as a physicist and scientific adviser, was known for his revolutionary work in U-Boat detection, ground-breaking research into cosmic rays and the discovery, with a colleague, of the positive electron.

From BBC

The result of their bombardments of boron and other light elements by alpha rays, moreover, had led them to propose that the proton was composed of a neutron and a positive electron, or positron.

From Literature

No fundamental positive electron has been isolated which at all corresponds to the negative electron, or corpuscle, as it is called by Sir J. J.

From Project Gutenberg

The nearest approach to a positive electron is the nucleus of the hydrogen atom, which carries a positive charge of the same magnitude as the charge on an electron.

From Project Gutenberg

The hole, he decided, would act like a positive electron.

From Time Magazine Archive