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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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That makes them about seven orders of magnitude, or 10 million times, more energetic than particles accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

The accelerator will help the company gain access to more patients interested in the technology, which can help them live more independently, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

“Our Smartstack platform is central to this new architecture, transforming the grid into an accelerator for compute,” Fluence Energy CEO Jeff Monday said in the media release.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

The accelerator formed through a partnership between a startup builder and investor, Founders Factory, and MSWA, an Australian nonprofit that provides services to patients with neurological conditions and funding to researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

Essentially, he was uncoiling the cyclotron that years earlier he had conceived by twisting Rolf Wideroe’s linear accelerator into a spiral.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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