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accelerator

noun as in machine for giving charged particles high velocity

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Ueda said raising rates at an appropriate speed won’t put the brakes on Japan’s economy—rather, it would take the foot off the accelerator enough to achieve growth and price stability.

Sources that produce cosmic rays are powerful enough to propel protons or electrons to energies far beyond what the most advanced human-made particle accelerators can reach.

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The team used a specialist retrieval system to access the airbag control module – where a snapshot of electronic data, triggered by the crash, revealed speeds, accelerator position, steering wheel angle and brake pedal application.

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“As a reminder, Nvidia is unlike any other accelerator. We excel at every phase of AI.”

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In this work, researchers achieved a first: they created scalable quantum circuits capable of preparing the starting state of a particle collision similar to those produced in particle accelerators.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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