particle accelerator

noun

: accelerator sense d

Examples of particle accelerator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

That began to change around the turn of the millennium, when physicists started smashing gold ions together at nearly the speed of light inside the giant particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in New York State. — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

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