Main Entry: Au·ger effect

Pronunciation: \(ˌ)ō-ˈzhā-\

Function: noun

Etymology: Pierre V. Auger †1993 French physicist

Date: 1931

: a process in which an atom that has been ionized through the emission of an electron with energy in the X-ray range undergoes a transition in which a second electron is emitted rather than an X-ray photon —called also Auger process