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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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Since regenerative braking lets you drive with just the accelerator pedal, I go days without ever touching the brake pedal.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

As England hit the accelerator, India became ragged - Shivam Dube had an awful time in the field.

From BBC Jul. 7, 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

Qualcomm’s high-bandwidth compute product is positioned against the high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, that nearly every leading accelerator depends on.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

As soon as he was clear of the Customs booth, however, he stomped a tasseled loafer down on the accelerator and the squealing Cadillac rocketed away.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are among the world’s leading producers of advanced memory chips, particularly high-bandwidth memory, a key component used in AI accelerators and data centers.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

The world wide web was created at CERN, while proton therapy grew from advances in particle accelerators and radiation physics.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

He noted the company’s products lines — including CPUs for agentic artificial intelligence, AI accelerators, custom-chip engagements and connectivity chips.

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

Morgan projected that capital investments in AI accelerators would total $800 billion in 2030, up from just over $300 billion in 2026.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

As so often happens in science, their discoveries only whet the appetite for more research, which in turn created a demand for bigger, more expensive accelerators.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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