particle accelerator

1. 1.

   a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles

   Synonymsacceleratoratom smasher

   Broaderscientific instrument

   Narrowerbetatroncharge-exchange acceleratorCockcroft and Walton acceleratorcollidercyclotronlinear accelerator

   Partsstorage ring

Questions about particle accelerator

What does particle accelerator mean?

particle accelerator means "a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles".

What is another word for particle accelerator?

Close synonyms include accelerator, atom smasher. 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 particle accelerator a common word?

particle accelerator 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.