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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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Tesla executives disputed Butler’s account, saying on social media the car’s driver pressed the accelerator pedal down and kept it pressed even after the crash.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Tesla’s vice president of AI and software Ashok Elluswamy wrote in a post on X that the driver had manually pressed the accelerator pedal down.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Qualcomm’s high-bandwidth compute product is positioned against the high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, that nearly every leading accelerator depends on.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

He also claimed that the driver "had the accelerator pushed even after the crash".

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

The Rad Lab’s idea was to develop a new type of accelerator.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The world wide web was created at CERN, while proton therapy grew from advances in particle accelerators and radiation physics.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

SK Hynix, a key supplier of high-bandwidth-memory for Nvidia’s AI accelerators, posted a fivefold jump in quarterly net profit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Morgan expects financing for data-center infrastructure to stabilize around 2028, financing for chips and custom AI accelerators will continue to surge into 2030.

From Barron's Jun. 16, 2026

Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays are particles from space that slam into Earth with energies far beyond anything produced by human-built particle accelerators.

From Science Daily Jun. 9, 2026

There are no antiprotons or antineutrons, made up from antiquarks, except for a few that physicists produce in large particle accelerators.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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