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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

“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

MSWA, an Australian nonprofit, will make venture-capital investments for the first time through the accelerator program.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

Then she was running all out toward the car, and I had a foot on the accelerator and a foot on the brake, and the Chrysler felt at that moment like a Thoroughbred racehorse.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green




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