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Meanings of atom smasher in English

Portuguese
acelerador de particulas
Catalan
accelerador
Wikidata

A device that uses electric fields to propel electrically charged particles to high speeds.

acelerador de particulas

Name shared by two DC Comics characters.

Synonyms
Examples for "accelerator"
Examples for "accelerator"
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Dan saw the faint glow of light ahead and pressed the accelerator.
When the wind blows
2
There's still some room left between the accelerator pedal and the floor.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
3
Nora pressed the accelerator, rocketed past the stop sign, and turned left.
The hellfire club
4
The sticky accelerator pedals also led to U.S. sales and production halts.
Reuters
5
Sometimes the accelerator entrepreneurs graduate into rent-paying companies in the co-working space.
The Guardian
1
Feel free to visit your nearest particle accelerator to see antimatter for yourself.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
2
After decades of swimming through particle accelerator data, the island had been reached.
Wired
3
Every one of those ships must be primarily a particle accelerator of prodigious size.
Cities in Flight
4
But not every suburban household boasts its own particle accelerator.
Wired
5
They say an accident occurred in the underground laboratory where the particle accelerator is found.
Future Lovecraft
Usage of atom smasher in English
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It runs the biggest atom smasher in the world and important discoveries are made there.
The Irish Times
2
A giant atom smasher, I wrote at the time.
Wired
3
It is home to the most powerful atom smasher in the world, the 27km-long Large Hadron Collider.
The Irish Times
4
The Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful atom smasher ever built, is up, running and producing data.
The Irish Times
5
Engineers discovered two vacuum leaks in areas of the enormous atom smasher that are supposed to be maintained at ultracold temperatures.
Wired
6
The giant atom smasher, based in an underground tunnel near Geneva had to be shut down when a technical fault emerged.
Radio NZ
7
The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher has restarted after an upgrade that could see it making scientific history for a second time.
The Irish Times
8
The world's largest atom smasher has set a record for high-energy collisions by crashing two proton beams at three times more force than ever before.
The Irish Times
9
Scientists confirmed at 10.41am local time on Sunday that the first beam of protons had made its way around the £3.74bn atom smasher.
The Guardian
10
That's why they were called atom smashers.
A short history of nearly everything
11
Enjoy scientific and educational demonstrations and contestants performing tricks like Walk the Dog, Boingy Boingy, and Atom Smasher.
Wired
12
You know about atom smashers?
Anathem
13
Supersymmetry was put forth as an extension of the Standard Model, but the predicted particles were out of reach for atom smashers of that era.
Wired
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