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accelerator

[ak-sel-uh-rey-ter] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
machine for giving charged particles high velocity
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That makes them about seven orders of magnitude, or 10 million times, more energetic than particles accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

An Australian accelerator, formed by Founders Factory and MSWA, will help healthcare startups advance technologies for neurological diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

“Our Smartstack platform is central to this new architecture, transforming the grid into an accelerator for compute,” Fluence Energy CEO Jeff Monday said in the media release.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

MSWA, an Australian nonprofit, will make venture-capital investments for the first time through the accelerator program.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

The driver watched the traffic light turn to yellow and then he stepped on the accelerator believing he could just glide right through the red signal.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan




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