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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

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of AI software, said on X that the driver had manually overridden the system by “by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100%.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

Livingston dropped everything to write a hasty thesis based on his work with the four-inch accelerator.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

OpenAI and Broadcom first announced a partnership to build AI accelerators last October.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 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

Bob Bacher and Ernest Lawrence had first met in 1930, when Bacher visited Berkeley to examine one of Edlefsen’s early four-inch accelerators.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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