electronics

See also: electrònics

English

Etymology

From electron ‎ -ics.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛl.ɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪks/, /ɪˌl.ɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/
• Rhymes: -ɒnɪks

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

electronics (countable and uncountable, plural electronics)

1. (physics) The study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles or by converting the flow of charged particles to or from other forms of energy.

   Electronics is a popular subject.

2. (in the plural) Devices which require the flow of electrons through conductors and semiconductors in order to perform their function; devices that operate on electrical power (battery or outlet)

   Look at all the electronics in this room!

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. Electronic circuitry.

   The electronics is the difference between a modern and an old-fashioned thermostat.

   The electronics are completely updated.

Derived terms

• acoustoelectronics
• animatronics
• atomtronics
• avionics
• bioelectronics
• bionics
• caloritronics
• civionics
• conetronics
• cryoelectronics
• digital electronics
• dildonics
• gizmotronics
• Intel
• magnetoelectronics
• mechatronics
• mecomtronics
• moletronics
• nanoelectronics
• nonelectronics
• optoelectronics
• ovonics
• power electronics
• psychoelectronics
• psychotronics
• quantum electronics
• radioelectronics
• radionics
• spintronics
• stereoelectronics
• straintronics
• structronics
• thermoelectronics
• twistronics

 

Related terms

• electronic
• electronic calculator
• electronic games

Translations

physics

• Afrikaans: elektronika (af)
• Albanian: elektronika
• Arabic: إِلِكْتْرُونِيَّات f pl (ʔiliktrūniyyāt)
• Aragonese: eletronica
• Armenian: էլեկտրոնիկա (hy) (ēlektronika)
• Asturian: electrónica f
• Azerbaijani: elektronika
• Basque: elektronika (eu)
• Belarusian: электро́ніка f (eljektrónika)
• Bengali: ইলেকট্রনিক্স (bn) (ilekṭronikśo)
• Bulgarian: електро́ника (bg) f (elektrónika)
• Burmese: အီလက်ထရွန်နစ်ပညာ (ilakhta.rwannacpa.nya), အီလက်ထရွန်နစ် (my) (ilakhta.rwannac)
• Catalan: electrònica (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子學／电子学 (zh) (diànzǐxué)

• Chuvash: электроника (elektronik̬a)
• Czech: elektronika (cs) f
• Danish: elektronik
• Dutch: elektronica (nl) m
• Esperanto: elektroniko
• Estonian: elektroonika
• Faroese: elektronikkur m, ravindi n pl
• Finnish: elektroniikka (fi), sähköoppi (fi)
• French: électronique (fr) f
• Friulian: eletroniche
• Galician: electrónica
• Georgian: ელექტრონიკა (elekṭroniḳa)
• German: Elektronik (de) f
• Greek: ηλεκτρονική (el) f (ilektronikí)
• Haitian Creole: elektwonik
• Hebrew: אֵלֶקְטְרוֹנִיקָה (he) f (elektrónika)
• Hindi: इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स (ilekṭrŏniks)
• Hungarian: elektronika (hu)
• Icelandic: rafeindatækni
• Ido: elektroniko (io)
• Indonesian: elektronika (id)
• Interlingua: electronica
• Irish: leictreonaic f
• Italian: elettronica (it) f
• Japanese: 電子工学 (ja) (でんしこうがく, denshi kōgaku), エレクトロニクス (ja) (erekutoronikusu)
• Kazakh: электроника (élektronika)
• Khmer: អសន្យាណូវិទ្យា (ʼaʼsɑnyaanouvityiə)
• Korean: 전자공학(電子工學) (ko) (jeonjagonghak), 일렉트로닉스 (illekteuronikseu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: elektronîk (ku)

• Kyrgyz: электроника (ky) (elektronika)
• Lao: ເອເລັກໂຕນິກ (lo) (ʼē lek tō nik)
• Latin: electronica f
• Latvian: elektronika f
• Lithuanian: elektronika (lt)
• Low German: elektronik
• Macedonian: електроника f (elektronika)
• Malay: elektronik (ms)
• Maori: mātai tāhiko
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: электроник (mn) (elektronik)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: elektronikk (no) m

  Nynorsk: elektronikk m

• Pashto: الکټرونيکس m (elekṭroníks)
• Persian: الکترونیک (fa) (elekteronik)
• Polish: elektronika (pl) f
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: eletrônica (pt) f

  European: eletrónica (pt) f

• Romanian: electronică (ro) f
• Russian: электро́ника (ru) f (elektrónika)
• Samogitian: alektruonėka
• Sanskrit: ऋणाणुशास्त्र (ṛṇāṇuśāstra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: електроника f

  Roman: elektronika (sh) f

• Sicilian: alittrònica
• Sinhalese: ඉලෙක්ට්‍රොනික විද්‍යාව (ilekṭronika widyāwa)
• Slovak: elektronika (sk) f
• Slovene: elektronika f
• Spanish: electrónica (es) f
• Swahili: elektroniki (sw)
• Swedish: elektronik (sv)
• Tagalog: elektronika, dagisikan
• Tajik: электроника (elektronika)
• Tamil: இலத்திரனியல் (ilattiraṉiyal)
• Tatar: электроника (elektronika)
• Thai: อิเล็กทรอนิกส์ (th) (ì-lék-trɔɔ-nìk)
• Turkish: elektronik (tr)
• Turkmen: elektronika
• Ukrainian: електро́ніка f (elektrónika)
• Urdu: بَرْقِیات (barqiyāt), الیکٹرانکس (ilekṭrāniks)
• Uyghur: ئېلېكترونىكا (ëlëktronika)
• Uzbek: elektronika (uz)
• Venetan: eletrònega
• Vietnamese: điện tử học
• West Frisian: elektroanika
• Wolof: mbëjfeppal (wo)
• Yiddish: עלעקטראָניק (elektronik)

device

• Catalan: electrònica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子產品／电子产品 (zh) (diànzǐ chǎnpǐn)

• Czech: elektronika (cs) f
• Estonian: elektroonika
• Finnish: elektroniikka (fi)
• Ido: elektroniko (io)
• Indonesian: elektronik (id)
• Japanese: 電子デバイス (でんしデバイス, denshi debaisu), 電子機器 (ja) (でんしきき, denshi kiki)
• Khmer: គ្រឿងអសន្យាណូ (krɨəŋ ʼaʼsɑnyiənou), គ្រឿងអេឡិចត្រូនិច (krɨəng ʼeeləctrounɨc)
• Malay: elektronik (ms)
• Polish: elektronika (pl) f
• Romanian: electronică (ro)
• Russian: электро́ника (ru) f (elektrónika), электро́нная аппарату́ра f (elektrónnaja apparatúra)
• Swahili: elektroniki (sw)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} אלקטרוניקה (he)
• Sindhi: ^{(please verify)} بَرقيات (sd) f (barkiat)

Anagrams

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