particle accelerator

noun

: accelerator sense d

Examples of particle accelerator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Running back Cam Skattebo’s job is to run like a proton in a particle accelerator, but Dart’s certainly is not. — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Others have been far too quiet—producing only one billionth the energy of the proton-proton collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2026

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, was powered up in an underground tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland. — USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Blazars, like the one central to this study, designated PKS 2233-148, have long been proposed to be the cosmic particle accelerators that blast out neutrinos. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for particle accelerator

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