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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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That makes them about seven orders of magnitude, or 10 million times, more energetic than particles accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

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

To address data-center scalability challenges, the companies said Thursday that they will focus on developing Intel server racks containing its signature central processing units and advanced AI accelerator architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

“Our Smartstack platform is central to this new architecture, transforming the grid into an accelerator for compute,” Fluence Energy CEO Jeff Monday said in the media release.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

His role would be to transform Lawrence’s ideas and Edlefsen’s jerry-built apparatus into an accelerator that worked.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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