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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

The accelerator will help the company gain access to more patients interested in the technology, which can help them live more independently, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 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

I took my foot from the accelerator and lightly pressed on the brakes.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez




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