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chronon
chronon [ krṓ non ] (plural chronons)


noun 
Definition:
 
very small unit of time: a unit of time equal to the time that it would take for a photon to cross the diameter of an electron, taken as approximately 10-24 seconds
[<chrono- + -on1]
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