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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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Having the lower limit means drivers are forced to do more 'lift and coast' - when they lift off the accelerator and let the car run before braking for a corner.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

The particle carried about 100,000 times more energy than anything ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

But when his acceptance letter arrived in 2024, the AI boom was already well underway, and an offer from Y Combinator to join its accelerator program in the winter won out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

However, Huawei has just launched its Atlas 350 accelerator, designed for artificial-intelligence inference—producing output from AI models—according to multiple reports from domestic Chinese media.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

To accelerator designers, it is a principle as fundamental as Einstein’s E=mc2.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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