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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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Researchers there used biological accelerator spectrometry, or BioAMS, to detect radioactive markers at extremely small concentrations.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

I squeezed the accelerator and off we went.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

The live entertainment accelerator started in 2022 as a 10-week experiment and has since grown into a six-month intensive program with weekly guest speakers from Live Nation, which culminates in the annual block party.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

"I think this could be a game-changer," Bernhard Kowatsch, head of WFP's global accelerator and ventures innovation division, told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

A particle accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois, meanwhile, cost $260 million merely to refit.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

Over the weekend, Samsung announced it would pursue a "strategic collaboration" for the "supply of industry-leading memory solutions, including HBM" -- supporting US chipmaker Broadcom's next-generation AI accelerators.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

The world wide web was created at CERN, while proton therapy grew from advances in particle accelerators and radiation physics.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 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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