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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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Competition among the industry's leading players is so fierce, with hundreds of billions of dollars in investment at stake, that none of them is willing to risk easing off the accelerator alone.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

“But if it can be thought of as an accelerator to the human workforce, it means timelines shrink, output increases and thus the bottom line can grow with the current investment of human capital.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

In Sur’s view, the fears around Broadcom’s competitive positioning as the top partner for Google’s tensor processing units, or AI accelerator chips, “are overstated.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

A proton PeVatron is a natural cosmic accelerator capable of pushing protons beyond the PeV threshold.

From Science Daily Aug. 2, 2026

Two months later, the commission appropriated $15 million for new accelerator construction, much of it destined for Berkeley.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

That involves adding "sulphur accelerators, antioxidants, and activators into the material" which "prevents the biodegradation of balloons" and also leaks "toxic chemicals into the environment".

From Barron's Aug. 23, 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

Unlike AI accelerators, China’s optical and networking stack doesn’t face a tech bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

On the contrary, there is an extremely wide range of experience—with nuclear accelerators and atomic clocks, for example—in precise quantitative agreement with special relativity.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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