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accelerator

[ak-sel-uh-ray-ter] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
machine for giving charged particles high velocity
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There, they used the facility's synchrotron, a circular particle accelerator that generates powerful X-rays.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

"That works beautifully as long as everyone agrees the accelerator stays pinned to the floor. It becomes more complicated when the top dogs running the biggest AI engines start discussing speed governors."

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

The accelerator will further create an open-source data set tracking housing policies and launch a competition to award $5 million to companies or nonprofits developing technology to simplify building homes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

In 2016, it raised its first venture fund and started its first accelerator program called “BotCamp,” focused on young startups creating chatbots using early natural-language-processing capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

By the time of the Bohemian Grove retreat, they were ready with a proposal for their own big accelerator.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The report says AI infrastructure is moving toward a multi-architecture model, in which GPUs and proprietary AI accelerators coexist, increasing demand for advanced interconnect technologies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

That leaves the two biggest names in AI accelerators betting opposite ways on whether a chip needs to be flexible.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Standard balloons, made of natural rubber, undergo sulphur vulcanization, with accelerators, activators and other substances added, said the scientists at Imperial.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Some reach energies greater than those produced by human-built particle accelerators.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026

We shall not bridge that gap with particle accelerators in the foreseeable future!

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




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