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accelerator

[ak-sel-uh-ray-ter] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
machine for giving charged particles high velocity
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AWS is installing an AI accelerator, or AI chip, “about every 14 seconds,” Jassy said on the earnings call.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Dr Percy said: "Where the real accelerator value add comes in here, what can be done on that network can be rinse and repeat anywhere else."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

He seeks to continue expanding local jobs, implement accelerator programs to support the development of small businesses and prioritize infrastructure to attract new businesses to the district.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Researchers established those ages using optically stimulated luminescence and carbon dating via accelerator mass spectrometry.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

The driver watched the traffic light turn to yellow and then he stepped on the accelerator believing he could just glide right through the red signal.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Telescopes and particle accelerators, for example, collect billions of data points – too large for the brain to comprehend.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The special purpose vehicle will purchase Broadcom’s XPU AI accelerators and networking solutions to lease them to Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Physicists have spent years searching for evidence of these wakes at the Large Hadron Collider and other high-energy particle accelerators.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

That involves adding "sulphur accelerators, antioxidants, and activators into the material" which "prevents the biodegradation of balloons" and also leaks "toxic chemicals into the environment".

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

On the contrary, there is an extremely wide range of experience—with nuclear accelerators and atomic clocks, for example—in precise quantitative agreement with special relativity.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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