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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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Or the 14 miles of tunnels that were dug for a giant particle accelerator in Texas, only for Congress to pull the plug.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

The LHC is a giant particle accelerator built in a 27km-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

Phase one is as an accelerator working with a high-performance computer.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

“You don’t need finishing school,” wrote Garry Tan, the president and CEO of renowned startup accelerator Y Combinator, in a post on X responding to news of Slow’s class.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Lawrence had asked his childhood friend to double-check the Rad Lab’s results using the Carnegie’s accelerator, the only machine in the world that could approach the cyclotron’s energies.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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