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

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

"That works beautifully as long as everyone agrees the accelerator stays pinned to the floor. It becomes more complicated when the top dogs running the biggest AI engines start discussing speed governors."

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

John Borthwick and his team at venture firm Betaworks picked Hugging Face as one of eight startups to join its 2016 accelerator among 450 applicants.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

In Sur’s view, the fears around Broadcom’s competitive positioning as the top partner for Google’s tensor processing units, or AI accelerator chips, “are overstated.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

Raytheon Company, a maker of radio tubes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had applied for a patent on a machine that sounded suspiciously like his spiral accelerator.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Demand could weaken across accelerators, memory, networking and data-center equipment.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

Despite major advances in nuclear physics since the 1930s and decades of work with particle accelerators, scientists have not been able to conclusively confirm the effect.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

Standard balloons, made of natural rubber, undergo sulphur vulcanization, with accelerators, activators and other substances added, said the scientists at Imperial.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Unlike AI accelerators, China’s optical and networking stack doesn’t face a tech bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Rabi, citing Berkeley’s three existing accelerators, suggested that Brookhaven should be given a chance to catch up.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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