collider

1. 1.

   an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on

   Broaderaccelerator

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Other forms of collider

plural

colliders·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about collider

What does collider mean?

collider means "an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on".

How many syllables are in collider?

collider has 3 syllables: col-li-der. The stress falls on "li". In IPA it is /kəˈlaɪdɚ/.

Is collider a common word?

collider is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.