neon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Neon signs or lights, collectively.

   Bring a song and a smile for the banjo Better get while the getting's good Hitch a ride to the end of the highway Where the neons turn to wood.

2. 2
   noun

   a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube

3. 3
   noun

   The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The second of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.

4. 4
   noun

   A form or sample of the element.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νέον (néon), neuter of νέος (néos, “new”), from earlier *νέϝος (*néwos), from Proto-Hellenic *newos, from Proto-Indo-European *néwos. By surface analysis, neo- + -on (suffix used in all noble gases).

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