particle accelerator

noun

: accelerator sense d

Examples of particle accelerator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Google previously examined radiation effects using particle accelerators on Earth. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026

Since then, researchers have won Nobel Prizes for discoveries using neutrinos created with particle accelerators, in cosmic-ray air showers in the Earth’s atmosphere and in the core of the Sun. — Doug Cowen, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

The analysis of these gamma-rays revealed how the supermassive black hole at the heart of this blazar is acting as a cosmic particle accelerator. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026

And yet there is also a particle accelerator, impossibly small by today’s standards. — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for particle accelerator

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