Definition of "holon" [holon]

• One of three kinds of quasiparticle (the other being the spinon and orbiton) that electrons in solids are able to split into during the process of spin–charge separation, when extremely tightly confined at temperatures close to absolute zero. (noun)
• The term "holon" is a structural family therapy term that implies the part and whole inevitably connected. Every holon is both a part and a whole, e.g.: an individual is part of a family, which is part of an extended family, which is part of a community, etc. (noun)

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• "The term holon refers to autonomous entities that act both as a part and as a whole."
• "The molecule that is also part of a cell is a holon, as is the cell that is part of an organ, and so on."
• "Each whole is simultaneously a part, a whole/part, a holon."