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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 team produced the arsenic-73 using FRIB's ReA accelerator, which they operated in a standalone configuration rather than relying on the main linear accelerator.

From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026

“It would be like driving with one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The particle carried about 100,000 times more energy than anything ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

However, Huawei has just launched its Atlas 350 accelerator, designed for artificial-intelligence inference—producing output from AI models—according to multiple reports from domestic Chinese media.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

She is cold, aloof, talks about other boys besides Will, exits the parking lot while pushing the accelerator a little too hard.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti




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