particle accelerator

noun

: accelerator sense d

Examples of particle accelerator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Located at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, the particle accelerator will fire electrons at protons and atomic nuclei to create an unprecedented view of their internal structure. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 July 2026

To test the theory, the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, would smash hundreds of billions of protons together at nearly the speed of light. — Lisa Song, CNN Money, 28 July 2026

The scans make up the largest dataset (as much as 300 terabytes per scroll) ever produced by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, a particle accelerator in Grenoble, France. — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 30 June 2026

The scans are made by synchrotron scanners, which are massive particle accelerators that can beam high-power x-rays at the object, revealing its inner layers down to the atomic level. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

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