particle accelerator

noun

: accelerator sense d

Examples of particle accelerator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Modern use of accelerators in physics The developments Cockcroft and Walton made marked the first step toward widespread use of particle accelerators, which continues today. — Andrea Richard, The Conversation, 2 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

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

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for particle accelerator

• accumulator
• adjudicator
• administrator
• appropriator
• articulator
• attenuator
• bronchodilator
• collaborator
• communicator
• conciliator
• cooperator
• coordinator