electron volt

1. 1.

   a unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt

   SynonymseV

   Broaderwork unit

Questions about electron volt

What does electron volt mean?

electron volt means "a unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt".

What is another word for electron volt?

Close synonyms include eV. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electron volt a common word?

electron volt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.