particle accelerator

noun

: accelerator sense d

Examples of particle accelerator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The jet carries 500,000 times the energy radiated by the sun and explains the mystery of how feeding black holes become such powerful cosmic particle accelerators and generate such high-energy gamma-ray photons. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026

This involves not only the particle accelerator but a mysterious golden disk that Pola believes can manipulate space-time and therefore reshape the universe. — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

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

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for particle accelerator

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