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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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The company where Albright works, Harmoni, is housed in a tech accelerator founded in 2018 with state funds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Phase one is as an accelerator working with a high-performance computer.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Qualcomm announced two chip-based accelerator cards and data-center racks in October as part of a plan to release multiple generations of data-center AI inference products on an annual cadence.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026

Analysis showed he touched the accelerator just before the impact.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Of these projects, he identified two—Sloan’s X-ray tube and the accelerator, not yet known as the cyclotron—as “rather spectacular and important in their early developments.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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