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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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In October, the company announced two chip-based accelerator cards and data-center racks as part of a plan to release multiple generations of AI inference offerings for data centers on an annual cadence.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

Those opposed to regulation say "unregulated AI is like the accelerator, and regulation is like a brake", said the British-Canadian computer scientist who won the 2024 Nobel Physics Prize for his work on AI.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

Having the lower limit means drivers are forced to do more 'lift and coast' - when they lift off the accelerator and let the car run before braking for a corner.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

The particle carried about 100,000 times more energy than anything ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

To accelerator designers, it is a principle as fundamental as Einstein’s E=mc2.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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