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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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As England hit the accelerator, India became ragged - Shivam Dube had an awful time in the field.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

They found that Butler manually pressed the accelerator pedal, “overriding the default FSD speed,” several times in the neighborhood where the crash occurred.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically boost its collision-capacity and the potential for unlocking one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe: dark matter.

From Barron's Jun. 27, 2026

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

And stepping hard on the accelerator, he sent the machine rocketing up into the sky.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

However, the authors emphasize that being beyond the reach of current particle accelerators does not make the theory impossible to test.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

What Qualcomm has laid out is a full stack that spans CPU compute, AI accelerators, a new memory design and the high-speed connectivity that ties a rack together.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

SK Hynix, a key supplier of high-bandwidth-memory for Nvidia’s AI accelerators, posted a fivefold jump in quarterly net profit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays are particles from space that slam into Earth with energies far beyond anything produced by human-built particle accelerators.

From Science Daily Jun. 9, 2026

Particle physicists look at the subatomic realm with particle accelerators: they use magnetic fields or other means to get tiny particles moving very fast; when these particles collide with one another, they spit off fragments.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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