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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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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

“I have always known that there is no greater accelerator of change and opportunity than the school house, and that is still true today,” Chait added.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

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

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

Tesla’s vice president of AI and software, Ashok Elluswamy, claimed the driver manually pressed the car’s accelerator pedal down, in a post shared to social-media platform X.

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

While the twenty-seven-inch accelerator was still on the drawing board, Lawrence and Livingston worked intently to improve the performance of the eleven-inch chamber that Livingston had built for the old magnet.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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