electron accelerator
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6.8
- noun
- /ɪˈlɛktrɒn əkˈsɛləreɪtər/
- Specialized
:
acelerador de electrones
- I believe I have already advised you that the new electron accelerator... considerably exceeds our power requirements.
- a new electron accelerator
Examples
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Positrons can be produced in significant quantities by radioactive sources and electron accelerators.
Academic text (2012) -
Positron annihilation became a fashionable source of gammas in the 1960s, when linear electron accelerators were upgraded to produce positron beams.
Academic text (2005) -
In April 1983, the Southeastern Universities Research Association won an intense competition for the construction and operation of a continuous-wave electron accelerator in the energy range of 0.5-4.0 GeV, designed for studies in high-energy nuclear physics.
Academic text (1993) -
"Marty Perl, who has an incredible nose for new physics, started us thinking about this in 1990," Jaros recalls, "when he threw on my desk a paper by two Russian theorists showing that a high-current electron accelerator would be a good place to look."
Academic text (1998) -
The electron accelerator at the research facility is used to conduct experiments on particle collisions.
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Scientists rely on the electron accelerator to produce high-energy beams for medical applications.
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After years of development, the new electron accelerator is capable of reaching speeds previously thought impossible.
Synonyms
A machine that makes tiny particles called electrons move much faster using changing magnetic fields
A machine that makes a steady beam of electrons go faster using electric fields from changing magnets
How Energetic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'electron' (a charged particle) + 'accelerator' (a device that increases speed), so it plainly denotes a device that accelerates electrons. This noun-noun compound follows normal English compounding rules and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand it.
Etymology
Electron accelerator comes from the simple image of a machine that 'makes things go faster'. Think of the accelerator like a car pedal or a racetrack that pushes tiny electrons to race, so it means a device that makes electrons move very fast.