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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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At a sentencing hearing on Friday, Judge Philip Katz KC told the Old Bailey Jackson had not driven an electric vehicle before and had pressed the accelerator believing it was the brake.

From BBC

AI revenue in the quarter more than doubled to $8.4 billion, driven by demand for custom AI accelerators and networking, Chief Executive Hock Tan said.

From The Wall Street Journal

And Microsoft’s Maia accelerators are also on track to ramp in the second half of this year into next year, Sur added.

From MarketWatch

In both experiments, scientists generate beams of neutrinos using particle accelerators and send them across vast underground distances to massive detectors.

From Science Daily

“Do you want to manage 15 different apps and get 15 different notifications?” says Andy Miller, senior vice president of AARP’s AgeTech Collaborative, a business accelerator program.

From The Wall Street Journal