atom smasher

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   a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles

   Synonymsacceleratorparticle accelerator

   Broaderscientific instrument

   Narrowerbetatroncharge-exchange acceleratorCockcroft and Walton acceleratorcollidercyclotronlinear accelerator

   Partsstorage ring

Questions about atom smasher

What does atom smasher mean?

atom smasher means "a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles".

What is another word for atom smasher?

Close synonyms include accelerator, particle accelerator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atom smasher a common word?

atom smasher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.