Bevatron

//ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɒn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.

    "Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron."

  2. 2
    a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts wordnet

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"Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron."

Etymology

From BeV + -a- + -tron.

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electron voltparticle accelerator

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