Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun neon

1 sense of neon

Sense 1
neon, Ne, atomic number 10 -- (a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts)
       => chemical element, element -- (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)
       => noble gas, inert gas, argonon -- (any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table)