Particle Accelerator Definition

noun

Accelerator.

Webster's New World
A device, such as a cyclotron or linear accelerator, that accelerates charged subatomic particles or nuclei to high energies for the purpose of colliding them with other particles or targets.
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Noun

Singular:
particle accelerator
Plural:
particle-accelerators

Particle Accelerator Sentence Examples

  • I switched on the particle accelerator in my basement.

  • The LHC will be the world's most powerful particle accelerator.

  • Next year the nuclear research institute at CERN will start using the largest particle accelerator in the world.

  • Particle physicists are waiting for 2007 when a new particle accelerator opens in the world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN.

  • About GridPP UK particle physicists are builing a computing Grid, to analyze the data deluge from CERN's next particle accelerator.

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