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say it: il-ek-TRAH-niks
electronics is a noun meaning "the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices". It is pronounced /ˌɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑnɪks/ — il-ek-TRAH-niks. It carries one recorded sense.
the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for electronics come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.