particle accelerator

noun

: accelerator sense d

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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 The devices could additionally be integrated into particle accelerators and other experiments. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for particle accelerator

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First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of particle accelerator was in 1945

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