particle accelerator
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- /ˈpɑrtɪkl əkˈsɛləˌreɪtər/
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acelerador de partículas
- And so CERN developed a whole series of what we call particle accelerators or scattering experiments, which basically is really simple.
- a powerful particle accelerator
- a high-energy particle accelerator
- a large particle accelerator
And the sun is a huge particle accelerator.
- And the sun is a huge particle accelerator.
- For example, we have a device that's called a particle accelerator.
- Now this is amazing, but it works, and this has been measured repeatedly with our particle accelerators and our experiments.
- In the case of gravitons, you look for, you know, data outside a particle accelerator, I guess.
- I'm not up on the very latest there, but there's actually good precedent for having this mysterious thing happen in our particle accelerators.
- But I believe the Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator and it spins things up like very small things.
- Basically, they're particle accelerators that shoot argon out very, very fast, so fast that the particles gain relativistic mass.
- According to Google, the watch operates like a particle accelerator.
- And so CERN developed a whole series of what we call particle accelerators or scattering experiments, which basically is really simple.
Examples
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Could a physicist falsify this theory by playing around with cloud chambers or particle accelerators?
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You create them with a particle accelerator.
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Even the most powerful particle accelerators on Earth cannot create these conditions.
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But being so complex and powerful, particle accelerators also demand extreme care and caution.
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If our particle accelerators fail us, the Universe can be our laboratory.
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The applications include plasma source ion implantation, particle accelerators, and semiconductor and flat panel display manufacturing.
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On Earth, only particle accelerators such as synchrotrons are capable of accelerating electrons to such high speeds.
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Recently, archaeologists have joined physicists, biologists, and materials scientists who use the particle accelerator to examine objects at a molecular scale.
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Since its launch in 2008, the international Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has been exploring natural particle accelerators and the interactions of high-energy particles in the universe.
Academic text (2012) -
The Large Hadron Collider is a famous particle accelerator that helps scientists explore the fundamental components of matter.
Synonyms
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A machine that makes particles move faster for scientific study
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A large machine scientists use to make tiny particles move very fast and hit each other
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is transparently built from 'particle' (a tiny physical bit) and 'accelerator' (a device that makes something faster), so the meaning 'a machine that speeds up particles' is directly derivable from the parts. This noun–noun compounding is a common, regular formation cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The name particle accelerator is very literal: it describes a machine that makes tiny particles go faster, and the word accelerator means 'to speed up'. So, the name reminds us that the machine increases the 'speed' and 'energy' of particles for science and medical work.