Cyclotron

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A circular particle accelerator in which charged subatomic particles generated at a central source are accelerated spirally outward in a plane perpendicular to a fixed magnetic field by an alternating electric field. A cyclotron is capable of generating particle energies between a few million and several tens of millions of electron volts.
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  • n. An early particle accelerator in which charged particles were generated at a central source and accelerated spirally outward through a fixed magnetic and alternating electric fields.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. a particle accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles; it is used in investigations in nuclear physics and particle physics.
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  • n. an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    atom smasher    particle accelerator    accelerator   
    Hyponym
    bevatron    synchrotron    synchrocyclotron   
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